The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

  • -- Ronald Blythe 罗纳德·布莱斯

活到老的平凡是一件太新奇而不值得欣赏的事情。

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The old sergeant from headquarters treats me like a son and takes the greatest pride in whatever I do or write. He regularly assigns me now to certain doors, and I always obey orders like the little gentleman that I am.

总部的老军士把我当儿子看待,对我所做的和所写的一切都感到无比自豪。他现在经常派我到某些地方去,我总是像我这样的小绅士一样服从命令。

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

如果我们所有的幸福都完全与我们的个人环境有关,我们很难不去要求生活给予更多。

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

当你的黑名册上所有的名字后面都有医学博士的名字时,你就知道你老了。

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

教育是一件美好的事情。如果你不能签名,你就得付现金。

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

没有一件事是漫长的,只有一件事是你不敢开始的。

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

生活只不过是一场竞争,让我们成为罪犯,而不是受害者。