If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfect… - Lin Yutang

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

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Lin Yutang (Traditional Chinese: 林語堂; Simplified Chinese: 林语堂; pinyin: Lín Yǔtáng) (10 October 1895 – 26 March 1976) was a Chinese writer and translator.

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Alternative Names: Lîm Gí-tông

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