An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

-- Benjamin Disraeli 本杰明·迪斯雷利

一个作家谈论自己的书就像一个母亲谈论自己的孩子一样糟糕。

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The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.

对一个作家的考验，不只是看他在报纸上发表的文章有多少……但有很多文章真正在年轻人的头脑中扎根。

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My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and she fixes me with a beady eye.

我岳母一句英语也不会说。我不讲塔吉克语。于是，我讨好地对她笑了笑，她用锐利的眼睛盯着我。

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Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

礼貌:喝汤时不要发出的声音。

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Where words fail, music speaks.

没有语言的地方，音乐就说话。

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