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Robert Lynd Quotes

«It is in games that many men discover their paradise.»
Author: Robert Lynd (Essayist, Journalist) | Keywords: games, paradise
«Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them.»
Author: Robert Lynd (Essayist, Journalist) | Keywords: likeable
«Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.»
Author: Robert Lynd (Essayist, Journalist) | About: Happiness | Keywords: approve, only if
«There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.»
«There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer»
Author: Robert Lynd (Essayist, Journalist) | Keywords: doer
«No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many other things so inevitably interesting. The very saints interest us most when we think of them as enganged in a conflict with the Devil.»
«Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead»
«Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.»
«Almost any game with any ball is a good game.»
«There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.»

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