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

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• It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.

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• We welcome almost any break in the monotony of things, and a man has only to murder a series of wives in a new way to become known to millions of people who have never heard of Homer.

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• It is in games that many men discover their paradise.

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• Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them.

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• The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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Robert Wilson Lynd (9)

Birth:	20th April, 1879
Death:	6th October, 1949
Nationality:	Irish
Profession:	Writer

About

Robert Wilson Lynd was born in Belfast and educated at Royal Belfast Academical Institution, studying at Queen's University. His background was Protestant, his father being a Presbyterian Church Moderator. He began as a journalist on "The Northern Whig" in Belfast. He moved to London in 1901, via Manchester, sharing accommodation with his friend the artist Paul Henry.

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