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Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen. ↗

— Robert Staughton Lynd

#especially #most #own #remember #risen

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

#be happy #believe #happy #make #most

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering. ↗

— Robert Staughton Lynd

#indifferent #only #own #suffering #thing

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. ↗

— Robert Wilson Lynd

#appearance #attracted #beneath #concerned #consecutive

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf. ↗

— Robert Wilson Lynd

#almost #golf #how #impossible #place

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

#appears #belief #dangerous #decisive #human

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

#before #birds #build #differ #landscape

I wish I had the nerve not to tip. ↗

— Paul Lynde

#had #i #i wish #nerve #tip

A closet full of wire hangers can be the most dangerous place in the world. ↗

— Paul Lynde

#dangerous #dangerous place #full #most #place

I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution. ↗

— Paul Lynde

#decided #feel #hoping #i #i can