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Lin Yutang
Lin Yutang
1937·New York, USA

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

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1937·New York, USA

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.

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