To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

  • -- Richard Whately 理查德·怀特利

老是想着自己的举止并不能使他们变得彬彬有礼;最完美的礼貌就是不为自己着想。

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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

如果你寻求真理,最终你会找到安慰;如果你寻求安慰,你将不会得到安慰或真相,只有软肥皂和一厢情愿的想法开始,最终,绝望。

If you'll think about various series you've read, can you think of any instance in which, say, the tenth volume of the series is notably better than the first nine? I can't.

如果你想一下你读过的各种系列,你能想到任何一个例子吗,比如说,这个系列的第十卷明显比前九卷好?我不能。

The things that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

真正困难、真正了不起的事情是放弃完美,开始做你自己。

When you fight for the impossible, sometimes you lose everything.

当你为不可能而奋斗时,有时你会失去一切。