Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

没有什么比常识和朴实无欺更使人吃惊的了。

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My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about - having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

我的人生经历变得越来越丰富和美好。我做的事情越多,我谈论的事情就越多——有孩子,旅行,经历关系问题,处理我自己家里的事情。所有这些都能塑造性格。

Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.

随着年龄的增长,我们坐在烟囱的角落里,周围最普通的事物都有了鲜活的意义,并暗示着这些驾车的时代与我们年轻时平静、缓慢移动的日子之间的不同。

Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.

世界历史上很少有冲突根据已公布的时间表得到令人满意的结束,因为你在对付你的对手时失去了一切灵活性。

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

如果一个人自信地朝着他的梦想前进,努力过他想象中的生活,他会在平常的时间里遇到意想不到的成功。

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

好好记住这一点,你们这些骄傲的实干家!毕竟,你只是思想的无意识工具。

No latitude makes any difference to what men will do to other men, whether for gain or in the name of justice.

人们为了利益或以正义的名义对他人所做的事,没有任何自由可以改变。