It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has been set like plaster, and will never soften again.

  • -- William James 威廉·詹姆斯

我们大多数人到三十岁的时候,性格已经定型,再也不会软化,这对世界是件好事。

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We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

我们认为,在文明时代产生的一首伟大的诗,是对天才最出色的证明。

I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.

我要想上三、四十年才能写出来。

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

父爱是假装你最爱的礼物是系在绳子上的肥皂。

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.

自然之人只有两种原始的激情:得到和生。