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Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

  • -- John Milton 约翰·米尔顿

真理从来不会来到这个世界上，而是像一个私生子一样，带着她出生的那个人的耻辱来到这个世界上。

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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

如果一个社会轻视优秀的管道工程，认为它是一项卑贱的活动，而容忍粗制滥造的哲学，因为它是一项崇高的活动，那么这个社会既没有好的管道工程，也没有好的哲学:它的管道和它的理论都站不住脚。

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When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.

一旦一个人产生了对文学的渴望，除了钢笔的刮擦，什么也治不好。但是如果你没有笔，我想你必须想尽办法去抓。

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Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

文学是一种文化的状态，诗歌是一种优雅的状态，前后都是文化。

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Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.

最近，我觉得我的生活是一本用我不懂的语言写成的书。

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If you appreciate the small things, you're likely to get the big ones.

如果你欣赏小事，你就有可能得到大事。

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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.

书籍如朋友，应该少而精。

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