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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

  • -- Samuel Johnson 塞缪尔·约翰逊

对于人类希望的虚荣心，没有任何地方比公共图书馆更能令人信服了。

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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

虚荣和骄傲是两码事，尽管这两个词经常被用作同义词。一个人可以骄傲而不虚荣。骄傲更多地与我们对自己的看法有关;虚荣心，我们希望别人怎么看我们。

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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

当情感信念的强度减弱时，一个有推理习惯的人会寻找符合逻辑的理由来支持他在自己身上找到的信念。

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People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.

那些只崇拜自己的人会有一种光滑、光亮的外表——就像纪念碑一样。真可惜他们这么快就走了。

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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

信念再好也没用，除非它把自己变成行动。

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