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The nation that is supreme above all others during one age, will be eclipsed by another in the next age.
一个时代高于一切的国家，在下一个时代将被另一个时代所超越。
— Paul Harris 保罗·哈里斯
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更多好句 ↗When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.
当你看到一座城市的时候，就像读到每一个建造它的人的希望、抱负和自豪。
Hugh Newell Jacobsen
胡·纽威尔·詹克布森
The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world, in spite of History.
诗歌的命运就是不顾历史，与世界相爱。
Derek Walcott
沃尔科特
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
大多数人都有一种近乎无限的能力，认为一切都是理所当然的。人不能从历史的教训中学到很多东西，这是所有历史教训中最重要的一条。
Aldous Huxley
奥尔德斯·赫胥黎
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
如果历史不断重演，而意想不到的事情总是发生，那么人类一定无法从经验中学习。
George Bernard Shaw
萧伯纳
The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves.
要想知道人们在特定时期过着怎样的生活，唯一的方法就是挖掘他们的记录，让他们为自己说话。
John Dos Passos
约翰·多斯·帕索斯
The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
爱好浪漫的人可以到别处去寻求满足，但爱好真理的人如果不求助于历史，又能向何处求助呢?
Katharine Anthony
凯萨琳·安东尼