6 Quotes & Sayings By Robert Staughton Lynd

Robert Staughton Lynd was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on February 12, 1887. He graduated from the University of Kansas in 1908, and became a teacher at the university. He held various teaching jobs until 1914, when he joined the U.S. Army as a private Read more

During World War I he became an aide to General Pershing, then commander of the AEF forces in France. After the war he obtained a Master's degree in English Language and Literature from Harvard University. In 1922 he joined the faculty of Columbia University as an associate professor of English, and he soon became well known as a critic and scholar of William Shakespeare.

In 1925 he published The Art of Rhetoric: A Treatise on Argumentation and Debate (1925), an important study that was widely recognized as one of the most important books of its kind published during the first half of the twentieth century. In 1929 Lynd founded and became editor of The Yale Review . It was during this time that he also wrote his seminal work on American democracy: Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War (1941).

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There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas. Robert Staughton Lynd
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Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. Robert Staughton Lynd
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Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with. Robert Staughton Lynd
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Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen. Robert Staughton Lynd
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Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left. Robert Staughton Lynd