Quotes by Robert Staughton Lynd - Page 1

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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Happiness
Happy
Believe
People
Approve
Be Happy
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Almost any game with any ball is a good game.
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Almost
Ball
Game
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Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
Robert Staughton Lynd /
Men
Every Man
Genius
Dead
Considerably
Helped
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Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
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Knowledge
Men
Bother
Facts
Knowledge And Power
Knowledge Power Knowledge Is Power
Man
Only
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Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
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Funny
Friendship
Friends
Humor
Advice
Good Advice
Strain
Good Long Will
Stand
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It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
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Glorious
Indifferent
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Friendship is not going to stand the pressure of greatly great guidance for quite extensive.
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Guidance
Pressure
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One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
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Knowledge
Brainy
Men
Flight
Ignorance
Joy
Greatest
Take
Greatest Joys
Joys
Search
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The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.
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Convenience
Nuisance
Telephones
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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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Integrity
Mean
Vices
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Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
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Cutting
Drama
Epic
Epic Poetry
Literature
Quarrels
Cut
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I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.
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Disappear
Half
Imaginary
Quiet
Sometimes
Difficulties
Suspect
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[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.
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History
Curiosity
Years
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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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Commonplace
Corny
Mean
Remarks
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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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Birthday
Smile
Risen
Second Chance
Sun
World
Time World Remember
Second
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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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Christmas
Smile
Arms
People
Want
People Who Because
Round
Some People
Strangle
Throw
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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.
Robert Staughton Lynd /
Men
Advice
Earth
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