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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
[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
The Democratic Party's complete obeisance to [the abortion] lobby makes Democrats look bought, frightened and craven.
— Peggy Noonan
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
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
Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
Moms and God generally get along pretty well.
— Benjamin Alire Saenz
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
You lack the season of all natures, sleep.
— William Shakespeare
A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print.
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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
It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal.
— Carol Alt
Almost any game with any ball is a good game.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
— Robert Staughton Lynd