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Lin Yu-tang
: The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere.
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The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.
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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
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We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
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When a friend, then, indulges in the joy of unburdening a secret on to another friend's bosom, he makes the latter, in his turn, feel the urge to taste the same joy himself. He implores him, it is true, not to tell a soul; but if such a condition were taken absolutely literally, it would at once cut off the flow of these joys at their very source. The general practice is for the secret to be confided only to an equally trustworthy friend, the same conditions being imposed on him. And so from trustworthy friend to trustworthy friend the secret goes moving on round that immense chain, until finally it reaches the ears of just the very person or persons whom the first talker had expressly intended it never should reach.
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Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.
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There are some occasions in which a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest; but there is seldom one in which a man should tell all. Great skill is necessary to know how far to go, and where to stop.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Upon the whole, a contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
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Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
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Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
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Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.
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This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.
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Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.
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All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
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Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
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Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly as he thinks.
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Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.
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