Now it must be taken for granted that simplicity of life and thought is the highest and sanest ideal for civilization and culture, that when a civili… - Lin Yutang

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Now it must be taken for granted that simplicity of life and thought is the highest and sanest ideal for civilization and culture, that when a civilization loses simplicity and the sophisticated do not return to unsophistication, civilization becomes increasingly full of troubles and degenerates. Man then becomes the slave of the ideas, thoughts, ambitions and social systems that are his own product.