There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.

  • -- Jane Austen 简·奥斯汀

以一种令人愉快的方式,几乎没有一种个人缺点不能使人逐渐适应。

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Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

乍一看,似乎没有什么比人类行为的外在形式更不重要的了,然而,没有什么比这更值得人们重视的了:除了生活在一个没有自己礼仪的社会里,人们对一切都习以为常了。

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

我不反对从头到尾都过同样的生活:只要求作者有优势,在第二版中改正第一版的错误。

Of all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important.

在我能知道的所有事情中,我自己的缺点和弱点几乎是最重要的。

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

你可以不讲礼貌地度过一生,但讲礼貌更容易。