But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.

  • -- G. K. Chesterton 特顿

但每件事都有合理的分工。这本书是我写的,无论如何也引不起我去读它。

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Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

书并不是绝对没有生命的东西,但书中确实包含着生命的力量,使之像它的后代那样活跃;不,它们确实像小瓶一样,保存着孕育它们的活生生的智慧的最纯粹的效力和精华。

I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.

我宁愿有一个舒适的房间,里面放满了书,你可以给我最好的装饰。