The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

  • -- Michael Caine 迈克尔·凯恩

缺席者总是有缺点的。也不是没有借口的现在。

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Balance in life is the key, as Aristotle taught us. Nobody likes a naive Pollyanna, but neither do we like to be around people who are constantly complaining and finding fault.

正如亚里士多德所教导我们的,生活的平衡是关键。没有人喜欢天真的乐观主义者,但我们也不喜欢周围的人总是抱怨和挑剔。

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

你必须喜欢现在;如果你的生活不是二手的,如果你认为它以前更好。或者未来会更好。

If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.

如果学校生活中的每一天都是最后一天,那也没什么可挑剔的。

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

现在充斥着平庸和原子弹的味道。