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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.

— Lin Yutang Remarks of Famous People (1965)

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There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.

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By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also.

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A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon from one to five ruined for him already.

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The wise man reads both books and life itself.

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Such religion as there can be in modern life, every individual will have to salvage from the churches for himself.

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