"To me personally, the only function of philosophy is to teach us to take life more lightly and gayly than the average businessman does, for no businessman who does not retire at fifty, if he can, is in my eyes a philosopher."
Lin Yutang

January 1, 1970

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Ch. I : The Awakening, p. 13

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