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
Birthday, Sun, Own, Risen
There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.
- Robert Staughton Lynd
Christmas, Some, Other, Strangle
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
Happiness, Other, Which, Approve
I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.
- Robert Staughton Lynd
Sometimes, About, Half, Suspect
It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
- Robert Staughton Lynd
Suffering, Own, Glorious, Indifferent
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
- Robert Staughton Lynd
Brainy, Flight, Take, Greatest Joys
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
Mean, Making, Most, Remarks
Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
- Robert Staughton Lynd
Knowledge, Only, Bother, Knowledge Is Power
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
- Robert Staughton Lynd
Will, Very, Cut, Epic
Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
- Robert Staughton Lynd
Genius, Considerably, Helped
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
- Robert Staughton Lynd
Friendship, Strain, Very, Much
Almost any game with any ball is a good game.
- Robert Staughton Lynd
Game, Almost, Any, Ball
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