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Lin Yutang

(1895—1976), Chinese-American writer

Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.

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Lin Yutang

(1895-1976), Chinese-American writer If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. www.english-slang.com

matter of fact

[matter of fact] {n. phr.} Something that is really true; something that can be proved. * /The town records showed that it was a matter of fact that the two […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

no matter

[no matter] 1. Not anything important. * /I wanted to see him before he left but it's no matter./ 2. It makes no difference; regardless of. * /She was going […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

Lewis Mumford

(1895-1990) U.S. writer Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. www.english-slang.com

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