Robert Staughton Lynd Quotes

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

  Robert Staughton Lynd

  Half, Quiet, Sometimes

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

  Robert Staughton Lynd

  Men, Knowledge And Power, Facts

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

  Robert Staughton Lynd

  Nuisance, Telephones, Convenience

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

  Robert Staughton Lynd

  Ignorance, Men, Joy

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• Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

  Robert Staughton Lynd

  Men, Genius, Every Man

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

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  Pressure, Guidance

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

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  Funny, Friendship, Humor

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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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  Mean, Corny, Remarks

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

  Robert Staughton Lynd

  Drama, Cutting, Epic

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

  Robert Staughton Lynd

  Happiness, Happy, Believe

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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.

  Robert Staughton Lynd

  Integrity, Mean, Vices

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

  Robert Staughton Lynd

  Years, History, Curiosity

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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.

  Robert Staughton Lynd

  Christmas, People, Want

  "The Book of This and That". Book by Robert Staughton Lynd, 1915.

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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.

  Robert Staughton Lynd

  Birthday, Second Chance, World

  Robert Lynd (1969). The Peal of Bells. p.26,

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