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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
喜剧,我们可以说,是社会用微笑来保护自己。
— J. B. Priestley 普里斯特利
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更多好句 ↗Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
小社区在和谐中成长,大社区在不和谐中破碎。
Sallust
萨卢斯特
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
在我们的社会里,勇气的对立面不是懦弱,而是从众。
Rollo May
罗洛·梅
Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
民意调查就像花园里的孩子,总是把东西挖出来看看它们是如何生长的。
J. B. Priestley
普里斯特利
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
虽然文明一直在改善我们的住房,但它并没有同样改善住在其中的人。它创造了宫殿,但创造贵族和国王并不容易。
Henry David Thoreau
亨利·大卫·梭罗
We imagine that times have changed, because we have, and that we have changed, because times have.
我们想象时代变了,因为我们变了,我们也变了,因为时代变了。
Shraga Silverstein
施拉格·西尔弗斯坦
The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops – no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
对文明的真正考验不是人口普查,也不是城市的大小,也不是庄稼——不,而是这个国家造就了什么样的人。
Ralph Waldo Emerson
拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生