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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I think when you do comedy, you play by a different set of rules. No one really wants you to be in that good shape. Being in good shape implies a level of vanity that isn't necessarily funny.

我认为当你演喜剧时，你要遵循一套不同的规则。没有人真的想让你保持良好的状态。保持良好的体型意味着一定程度的虚荣心，而这种虚荣心并不一定是有趣的。

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To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.

给一只猫洗澡需要蛮力、毅力、信念的勇气——还有一只猫。最后一种成分通常最难获得。

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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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We are often shot with our own feathers.

我们经常被自己的羽毛击中。

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