There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

  • -- Anthony Trollope 安东尼·特罗洛普

爱情中没有幸福可言,除非是在一本英文小说的结尾。

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A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength. You do this because you expect to get back more than you give.

一本书就像一个泵。它不会给你任何东西,除非你先给予它。你用你自己的水启动水泵,你用你自己的力量操纵手柄。你这样做是因为你期望得到的比你付出的多。

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

幸福是懂得友谊比单纯的东西更珍贵,比随心所欲更珍贵,比身处真正的原则不受威胁的境地更珍贵。

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

时间是别人幸福的最大破坏者,它只会把文学遗产扩大到它的拥有者手中。

Ereaders were a great convenience, but nothing could beat the smell of a library and old books.

电子阅读器非常方便,但没有什么能比得上图书馆和旧书的气味。