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01c. 1935 AD

Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

Lin Yutang / quote

02c. 1935 AD

All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.

Lin Yutang / quote

03c. 1935 AD

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

Lin Yutang / quote

04c. 1935 AD

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

Lin Yutang / quote