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Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

  • -- Miguel de Cervantes 塞万提斯

谦虚是诗人所不常有的美德，因为他们几乎都认为自己是世界上最伟大的人。

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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.

我认为每个教授和作家在某种程度上都是一个暴露狂，因为他或她的日常活动是一种戏剧活动。当你上课的时候，情况就像写一本书一样。你必须抓住观众的注意力和同谋。

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Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.

诗人说过，有孩子的原因是为了让自己长生不老。永生?现在我有五个孩子了，我唯一的希望就是在我死之前他们都离开家。

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Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.

财富是最大的财富，在拉丁语和英语中，财富已经取代了她的名字。

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Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.

在与他人的冲突中，我们夸夸其谈;在我们与自己的冲突中，我们创造了诗歌。

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If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

如果一个男人能……做一个更好的捕鼠器，世界就会开辟一条通往自己家门口的路。

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If I wanted to pitch that bad, I probably would. But I don't think I'm in that stage.

如果我想投那么差的球，我可能会投。但我觉得我还没到那个阶段。

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Even if the whole world gives up on you, you always have yourself.

即使全世界都放弃了你，你仍然拥有你自己。

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

最伟大的学者通常不是最聪明的人。

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