The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please, must please to live.

  • -- Samuel Johnson 塞缪尔·约翰逊

戏剧的法则,戏剧的赞助人给予。因为我们活着为了取悦他人,也必须取悦他人。

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Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

诗歌的优点是能够在一半的时间里说两倍于散文的话,缺点是,如果你没有把全部的注意力放在诗歌上,那么你似乎在两倍的时间里说了一半的话。

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

如果你违反了自然法则,你就是你自己的检察官、法官、陪审团和刽子手。

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

制定人们不能也不愿遵守的法律,只会使所有的法律受到蔑视。

One thing you can't do with babies, you can't give them steak.

有一件事你不能对婴儿做,你不能给他们牛排。