With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away.

  • -- Francis Aungier 弗朗西斯·昂吉尔

和一群银行家在一起,我总觉得衡量成功的标准是一个人不付出任何东西的程度。

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Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

对于诗人来说,平庸现在和从前一样,是危险的,通常是致命的;但是,即使是成功的散文作家,那些理智地超越它的人也是非常罕见的例外。

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

成功并不总是成功,而有名的失败却常常成功。它是诚实的努力,坚持不懈的努力,在任何情况下都能做到最好。

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

老年增加了人们对美德的尊敬,却丝毫没有减少人们对罪恶的蔑视;它只会使头发变白。

Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.

压力是你不知道自己在做什么的时候感觉到的。

Nothing exists if a store doesn't buy it and you're not able to get it.

如果商店不买,而你又买不到,那就什么都不存在。

There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.

世界上还有比给女人把脉更糟糕的职业。