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Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

  • -- Quentin Crisp 昆汀·奎斯普

体面必须是一种比它的反面更令人筋疲力尽的状态来维持。那些成功的人似乎需要充足的睡眠。

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Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

振作起来。不要想着今天的失败，而要想着明天可能会成功。你给自己定了一个艰巨的任务，但如果你坚持下去，你就会成功;你会在克服困难中找到快乐。记住，我们为获得美好的东西所付出的努力是不会白费的。

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I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.

我最喜欢去哈特福德。我想面对那里以保守主义为中心的思想，迫使它变得正派。

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Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

棒球是唯一一个人十有三次都能成功并被认为是一个优秀的运动员的运动领域。

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God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.

上帝已经被取代了，就像他在整个西方所做的那样，被尊重和空调所取代。

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God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

上帝赐给人类的最宝贵的礼物是正直的心。

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