Top 16 Robert Staughton Lynd Quotes

#1. I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.

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#2. Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

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#3. Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

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#4. Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

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#5. Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.

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#6. Almost any game with any ball is a good game.

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#7. There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.

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#8. Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

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#9. When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given the same old advice but for different reasons.

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#10. [History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

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#11. The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.

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#12. Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

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#13. Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

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#14. One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

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#15. Friendship is not going to stand the pressure of greatly great guidance for quite extensive.

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#16. Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

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