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But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

  • -- Edward Gibbon 爱德华·吉本

但是，教育的力量很少有多大作用，除非是在那些几乎是多余的快乐的性情中。

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I'm happy to tell you that having been through surgery and chemotherapy and radiation, breast cancer is officially behind me. I feel absolutely great and I am raring to go.

我很高兴地告诉你们，经历了手术、化疗和放疗，乳腺癌正式离我而去。我感觉非常好，我很想去。

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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

鉴于外部现实是虚构的，作者的角色几乎是多余的。他不需要虚构，因为小说已经存在了。

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The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.

在其他条件相同的情况下，智力的平均水平越高，爱管闲事、爱挑剔和专横跋扈的人就越少。

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If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

如果一个人有良好的性格，还需要什么其他的美德?人若有名声，其馀的妆饰还有什么价值呢?

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Call no man happy till he is dead.

人未死不能称幸福。

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