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My dear friend, clear your mind of cant... You may talk in this manner; it is a mode of talking in Society: but don’t think foolishly.
我亲爱的朋友，把你脑子里的假话清除掉……你可以这样说;这是社会上的一种谈话方式，但不要愚蠢地思考。
— Samuel Johnson 塞缪尔·约翰逊
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更多好句 ↗Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
智慧和悟性只有走在观察、专注、坚持和勤奋的老路上，才能成为个人的财富。
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
柯勒律治
There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
没有什么比没有洞察力的活动更可怕的了。
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
约翰·沃尔夫冈·冯·歌德
The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.
如果一个作家失去了自我怀疑，随着年龄的增长，他突然变得兴高采烈，变得啰嗦，那么他应该立即停止写作:他该放下笔了。
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
科莱特
You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought.
你会惊奇地发现，将一个行动转化为思想是多么困难。
Karl Kraus
卡尔·克劳斯
The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
重要的是知道如何平静地对待一切。
Michael Faraday
迈克尔·法拉第
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
虽然文明一直在改善我们的住房，但它并没有同样改善住在其中的人。它创造了宫殿，但创造贵族和国王并不容易。
Henry David Thoreau
亨利·大卫·梭罗