I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

  • -- Robert Louis Stevenson 罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森

我的习惯是,与其说我在观察一件礼物的本质,不如说我在观察它被赋予的精神。

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Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

许多政治家习惯于把它作为一个不言自明的命题,即在人们能够充分利用他们的自由之前,没有人应该是自由的。这句格言就像古老故事里的傻瓜,他决定在学会游泳之前不下水。

Never permit failure to become a habit.

永远不要让失败成为一种习惯。