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The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.
全欧洲的灯都灭了。在我们有生之年,我们不会再看到它们被点燃。
— Edward Grey 爱德华·格雷
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更多好句 ↗Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
大多数人都有一种近乎无限的能力,认为一切都是理所当然的。人不能从历史的教训中学到很多东西,这是所有历史教训中最重要的一条。
Aldous Huxley
奥尔德斯·赫胥黎
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
如果我们要求尊重法律,我们首先必须使法律受人尊敬。
Louis D. Brandeis
布兰代斯
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
不能从历史中吸取教训的人注定要重蹈覆辙。
George Santayana
乔治·桑塔亚纳
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
在人类(以及动物)的漫长历史中,那些学会了最有效地合作和即兴发挥的人占了上风。
Charles Darwin
查尔斯·达尔文
Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed.
法律是稳定的;我们所说的社会是进步的。一个民族的幸福或多或少取决于缩小鸿沟的快速性。
Henry James Sumner Maine
亨利·詹姆斯·萨姆纳·缅因州
The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world, in spite of History.
诗歌的命运就是不顾历史,与世界相爱。
Derek Walcott
沃尔科特