Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

  • -- Arthur Conan Doyle 阿瑟·柯南·道尔

散漫的读者很少因其学习的准确性而引人注目。

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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

一本真正伟大的书应该在青年时读,在成熟时读,在老年时读,就像一座精美的建筑应该在晨光、正午和月光下看一样。

This ‘sense’ is not to be obtained by reading between the lines (for there is nothing there, in those white spaces), but by reading the lines themselves.

这种“感觉”不是通过阅读字里行间的文字来获得的(因为在那些空白的地方什么也没有),而是通过阅读字里行间的文字来获得的。