The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.

  • -- Laurence Sterne 劳伦斯·斯特恩

使用书籍最成功的方法是像某些人做领主一样为他们服务;学习他们的头衔,然后吹嘘他们的熟人。

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People keep telling us, that they didn't know when they were booking tickets for it, but afterwards they say that they've had no sense that they were watching an old fashioned play.

人们不停地告诉我们,他们不知道自己什么时候订的票,但后来他们说,他们没有意识到自己在看一部老式戏剧。

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

一本真正的好书教会我的比读它更好。我必须马上把它放下,开始按照它的暗示生活。我从读书开始,必须从表演结束。

A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.

很多人在即将成功之前就放弃了。你永远不知道下一个障碍何时会成为最后一个。

Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo

相识的人很多,征服的人却很少,但出于好奇,我只认识两个——我哭泣的朋友和我追求的姑娘

It was more exciting to get that first book published, I think.

我想,出版那本书更令人兴奋。

A wise man knows everything; a shrewd one, everybody.

智者无所不知;每个人都很精明。