Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural

  • -- George Bernard Shaw 萧伯纳

成年人之间的感情——如果他们在思想上是真正的成年人,而不仅仅是已经长大成人的孩子——和孩子们之间的感情是如此自私和残忍,孩子们必然不知道或没有意识到这一点,那么这种感情就不能被称为自然的

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I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

我必须对“单纯的孩子”一词提出异议,因为我的一贯经验是,与单纯的孩子作伴比与单纯的成年人作伴好得多。

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

对一部小说的最后考验将是我们对它的喜爱,正如它是对我们的朋友以及任何我们无法定义的东西的考验。

The best way to hold a man is in your arms.

抱男人最好的方法就是把他抱在怀里。

Children aren't dogs; adults aren't gods

孩子不是狗;成年人不是神