The art of writing history is the art of emphasizing the significant facts at the expense of the insignificant. And it is the same in every field of knowledge. Knowledge is power only if a man knows what facts not to bother about.
Most human beings are quite likable if you don't see too much of them. - Robert Wilson Lynd
Most human beings are quite likable if you don't see too much of them.
- Robert Wilson Lynd
Swinburne was an absurd character. He was a bird of showy strut and plumage. One could not but admire his glorious feathers; but, as soon as he began… - Robert Wilson Lynd
Swinburne was an absurd character. He was a bird of showy strut and plumage. One could not but admire his glorious feathers; but, as soon as he began…
A cat is only technically an animal, being divine. - Robert Wilson Lynd
A cat is only technically an animal, being divine.
We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it. - Robert Wilson Lynd
We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it.
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf. - Robert Wilson Lynd
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
No man is uninteresting when his hat is blown off and he has to scuttle after it down the street. - Robert Wilson Lynd
No man is uninteresting when his hat is blown off and he has to scuttle after it down the street.
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. - Robert Wilson Lynd
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.
Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in th… - Robert Wilson Lynd
Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in th…
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. - Robert Wilson Lynd
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
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