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Quotes from Robert Lynd — Robert Wilson Lynd

1879–1949 Ireland

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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 had risen.

Robert Lynd (1969)

The art of writing history is the art of emphasizing the significant facts at the expense of the insignificant. And it is the same in every field of knowledge. Knowledge is power only if a man knows what facts not to bother about.

Robert Lynd (1926)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Wilson Lynd (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.