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Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
— Graham Greene
[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.
— Oscar Wilde
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
Friendship is not going to stand the pressure of greatly great guidance for quite extensive.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
Personal maturity means the ability to know and do the right thing, even when we don't feel like it.
— Jesse Rice
The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
There would always be, he now understood, those for whom violence was righteous. Sudden
— Steven Erikson
Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
How the English love playing at being naughty boys!
— Robert Gottlieb
Even a two-car parade gets fouled up if you don't decide ahead of time who's going to lead.
— Zig Ziglar
Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
Almost any game with any ball is a good game.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
That's all you need? Easy. I love you.Okay? Want it louder?I love you. Spell it out schould I l-o-v-e y-o-u. Want it backwards You love I.
— William Goldman