What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

  • -- Augustus Hare 野兔奥古斯都

一个人对自己的性格、信息和能力的赞扬,也许比他所谴责的更可靠。

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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.

我不能也不会为了迎合今年的时尚而削减自己的良心,尽管我很久以前就得出这样的结论:我不是一个政治人物,在任何政治团体中都不会有舒适的位置。

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

一个人爱另一个人;这也许是我们所有任务中最困难的,是最后的、最后的考验和证明,所有其他工作都只是准备工作。

What is perhaps more worthy of note than how many tsunami dead we've seen, however, is how many other recent dead we have not seen.

然而,也许比我们所见过的海啸死亡人数更值得注意的是,我们还没有看到最近有多少人死亡。

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

对于有感情的人来说,幻觉是一种艺术,如果我们这样做,我们就是靠艺术生活的。

How can the eater of dates forbid the eating of dates?

吃枣的人怎么能禁止吃枣呢?

A person dishonored is worst than dead.

受辱的人比死人还坏。