The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

  • -- James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce 詹姆斯·布莱斯,第一子爵

一本书的价值是由你能从书中带走什么来衡量的。

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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

买书是一件好事,如果你还能买到时间来阅读的话:但是一般来说,买书会被误认为是占用了书的内容。

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.

乱交就像从来没有读过第一页。一夫一妻制就像一遍又一遍地读同一本书。

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

读书不是为了反驳和驳倒,也不是为了相信和想当然……而是要权衡和考虑。

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

如果有一本书你想读,但还没有写出来,那么你必须写出来。