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Robert Lynd
About the author
It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
Robert Lynd,
#Suffering
Almost any game with any ball is a good game.
Robert Lynd,
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
Robert Lynd,
#Will
#History
#Poetry
#Literature
#Fiction
#Drama
#Quarrels
Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
Robert Lynd,
#Being
#Man
#Genius
I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.
Robert Lynd,
#Quiet
#Difficulties
There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer.
Robert Lynd,
#Nothing
#Evil
#Idea
Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
Robert Lynd,
#People
#Trying
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.
Robert Lynd,
#Time
#World
#Sun
#Birthday
Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.
Robert Lynd,
#Saying
#Worth
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
Robert Lynd,
#Man
#Ignorance
#Knowledge
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.
Robert Lynd,
#Want
#People
#Christmas
Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
Robert Lynd,
#Man
#Power
#Knowledge
#Facts
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Robert Lynd,
#Will
#Friendship
#Advice