When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time.

  • -- Edgar Watson Howe 埃德加·沃森·豪

当一个男人想要卖东西给你时,不要以为他一直都很有礼貌。

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For example, I was discussing the use of email and how impersonal it can be, how people will now email someone across the room rather than go and talk to them. But I don't think this is laziness, I think it is a conscious decision people are making to save time.

例如,我曾经讨论过电子邮件的使用,以及它的非人情味,人们现在会如何给房间另一头的人发电子邮件,而不是去和他们交谈。但我不认为这是懒惰,我认为这是一个有意识的决定,人们正在作出节省时间。

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

凡升到一般人以上的人,都受了两种教育:第一种来自他的老师;第二个更私人也更重要,来自他自己。

My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?

我的化妆品没有弄脏,我没有蓬头垢面,我表现得很有礼貌,而且我从来没有喝完一瓶酒,所以我怎么会酗酒呢?

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

过去有价值的东西都不离开;人所认识的善,或善,是会死的,或能死的。

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

有礼貌的敌人难以败坏名声,粗鲁的朋友难以保护。

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

有些想法,比如你要如何度过你的一生,需要时间来形成。