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« The scamp [...] will be the champion of human dignity and individual freedom, and will be the last to be conquered. All modern civilization depends entirely upon him. »
Lin Yutang — Personal development — Judo73 — 15/11/2021
« I am doing my best to glorify the scamp or vagabond. I hope I shall succeed. For things are not so simple as they sometimes seem. In this present age of threats to democracy and individual liberty, probably only the scamp and the spirit of the scamp alone will save us from being »
Lin Yutang — Personal development — Judo73 — 15/11/2021
« Our task is not so much discovery as re-discovery. What one needs is not so much thinking as remembering. Sometimes it suffices to sit quietly and listen well, when venerable men have thought before us. Constant forgettings of truths once perceived are the very charm of the human »
Lin Yutang — Personal development — Judo73 — 15/11/2021
« All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress. »
Lin Yutang — Humour — Judo73 — 15/11/2021
« Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. »
Lin Yutang — Personal development — Judo73 — 15/11/2021
« Les robes des femmes, de tout âge et de tout pays, sont une simple variante de l'éternel lutte entre le désir reconnu de s'habiller et le désir caché de se déshabiller. »
Lin Yutang — Humour — Judo73 — 07/10/2020
« A côté du noble art de faire faire les choses par les autres, il y a celui, non moins noble, de les laisser se faire toutes seules. »
Lin Yutang — Personal development — Judo73 — 07/10/2020