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All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

  • -- Thomas Carlyle 托马斯·卡莱尔

人类所做的、想过的或曾经做过的一切，都像魔法一样保存在书页之中。

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It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

我认为，当孩子们日益增长的观察力和辨别能力激起他们对事物的渴望时，用谎言和胡言乱语来搪塞他们是大错特错的。

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If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

如果人们破坏了人类创造的可替换的东西，他们被称为破坏者;如果他们破坏了上帝创造的不可替代的东西，他们就被称为开发者。

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I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.

我知道我们周围的神秘，所以我写巧合、预感、情感、梦想、大自然的力量、魔法。

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An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.

没有读过的书对任何人都没有好处。故事发生在读者的脑海中，而不是印在纸上的符号之间。

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How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?

我们是如何或通过什么魔法，以如此精确的方式将我们的想法传达给彼此的?

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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

我的第一个愿望是看到人类的这场瘟疫，战争，从地球上消失。

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A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.

谎言为耶和华所憎恶。在患难中，是他随时的帮助。

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A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

一个好的故事总是比破碎的真相更令人眼花缭乱。

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A series of books is really one book separated into several.

一系列的书实际上是一本书分成几本。

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What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.

什么是日内瓦战争公约?我从来没有读过。

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Readers are plentiful, thinkers are rare.

读者多，思考者少。

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Only the non reader fears books.

只有不读书的人才怕书。

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