How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.

-- Horace Walpole 霍勒斯·沃波尔

当莎士比亚从旁门旁道或庸俗的历史学家那里借用小环境时，他是多么懂得如何改善和提升小环境。

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I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

我几乎完全无视先例，相信会有更好的结果。有人告诉我事情总是这样做，我很生气。我反对先例的暴政。我追求任何可以改变过去的新事物。

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Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.

近年来(也许是由于我们的政治变化)，艺术比以往任何时候都更多地借鉴历史。

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No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.

如果你不做自己，没有人会改善你的命运。

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