God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

-- William Ellery Channing 钱宁

感谢上帝赐予我们书籍;他们是远方和死者的声音，使我们成为过去时代精神生活的继承人。

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Distant Books - Reading Books

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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

当把遥远的、陌生的、复杂的东西传达给广大人民群众时，真理就会受到相当大的歪曲，而且往往是根本性的歪曲。复杂变成简单，假设变成教条，相对变成绝对。

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Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

小说是艺术，艺术是对混乱的胜利……庆祝一个世界，它就像一个令人困惑和巨大的梦想，在我们周围展开。

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To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.

遇到一本好书并有时间去读它是一件美妙的事情。

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A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.

远敌总比近处的好。

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Disease often comes with a smiling face.

疾病常常伴随着笑脸而来。

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I don't read books.

我不读书。

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