Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.

-- Samuel Johnson 塞缪尔·约翰逊

你的稿子既好又新颖。但好的部分不是原创的，原创的部分也不是好的。

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Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, i'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside- remember all the times you've felt that way.

有时候你早上从床上爬起来，你想，我活不下去了，但你内心却在笑——记住所有你有过这种感觉的时候。

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Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.

从字面意义上讲，幽默是用来戏弄人的;也就是说，要废黜他的官职，像打猎一样追捕他。

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The difference between truth and fiction is that fiction has to make sense.

真实与虚构的区别在于，虚构必须有意义。

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The waste basket is a writer's best friend.

废纸篓是作家最好的朋友。

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