Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

  • -- Abraham Lincoln 亚伯拉罕·林肯

书可以告诉一个人,他最初的想法并不新鲜。

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Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more.

为什么我们伟大作家的作品没有更多地散布在全国各地?伟大的书不是每个人都能得到的;虽然全面地了解他们比只在这里和那里了解他们要好,但是给那些没有时间也没有办法得到更多的人一点帮助是一件好事。

I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.

我把书拿到一张桌子前,打开它柔软的象牙色书页……在旱季掉进池塘里。

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

一本书就像一根绳子;它的意义只与它联系在一起的事物有关。

If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away.

如果有什么东西袭击了我们,我们只能惊慌失措,直到它消失。