Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense.

  • -- Wentworth Dillon 温特沃思·迪伦

不谦虚的话不能为自己辩解,因为缺乏体面就是缺乏理智。

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The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them -- to convey, to reach, to express something within us, and to understand others.

学习词汇的最后一个动机应该是给人留下深刻印象。语言是需要后天习得的,因为我们迫切需要它们——去传达,去触及,去表达我们内心的某种东西,去理解他人。

I think the words you stop yourself from saying are the ones that will haunt you the longest.

我认为那些你不想说的话会让你困扰最久。