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is always a mere variation on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.

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.

is, for the Chinese, not distinguished from medicine.

The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.

is like a road in the country... which was never there, but came into existence when many people walk on it.

like a road in the country... there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

is knowing the pleasure of relaxation --- if you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

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

is delight in the rainbow while physics is the understanding of it.

Understanding the rainbow is physics, but delight at the rainbow is morality!

is the greatest of all the rights of women.

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother

I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.

Neckties strangle clear thinking. — Lin Yutang

is nothing but the love of the food one ate as a child'.

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child'

is love of the good things we ate in our childhood.

is understanding the rainbow while morality is delight in it.

 to understand is physics, but to delight in is morality.

is done by the wise man both with books and with life itself.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of the man without weaknesses.

I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of the man without weaknesses. He is not to be trusted. He is apt to be always sober and he cannot make a single mistake. His habits are likely to be regular, his existence more mechanical and his head always maintains its supremacy over his heart. Much as I like reasonable persons, I hate completely rational beings.

is possible only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

has something in its nature that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.

There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.

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