There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

  • -- Robert G. Ingersoll 格索

书中有许多珍宝,是世界上所有的钱都买不到的,但是最贫穷的劳动者却可以免费得到。

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He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.

他开始以一种我能认出来的方式看着我:那是我看一本新书的方式,一本我以前从未读过的书,一本让我惊讶不已的书。

What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start and to which I never warmed as it proceeded?

我能对第一次世界大战说些什么呢?在这场战争中,我作为一名步兵服役,一开始我痛恨这场战争,但随着战争的进行,我从未对它感到温暖。

If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.

如果我们用一本书对读者的影响来衡量它的重要性,那么伟大的儿童书籍就会突然出现在排行榜的前列。

It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt...

读一本书很重要,但也要拿着书,闻一闻书的味道……这是香水,这是香,这是埃及的尘土……

Imagine a world where everything is free, then seek counseling. That’s too much death to be thinking about.

想象一个一切都是免费的世界,然后寻求咨询。那是太多的死亡让人无法思考。

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

他喜欢阅读这一简单的行为,喜欢把书页上的划痕在脑子里变成文字的魔力。