Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.

  • -- Robert Hall 霍尔

在所有的文学作品中,传记也许是最令人愉快的。把注意力集中在一个人身上,使构成这个人的材料统一起来,这是一般历史所缺乏的。

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You may have heard the world is made up of atoms and molecules, but it's really made up of stories. When you sit with an individual that's been here, you can give quantitative data a qualitative overlay.

你可能听说过世界是由原子和分子组成的,但它实际上是由故事组成的。当你和一个曾经在这里的人坐在一起,你可以给定量数据一个定性的叠加。

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

我很高兴我很少注意到好的建议;如果我遵守了它,我可能已经从一些最有价值的错误中拯救出来了。

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.

真正需要的不是全国性的教育课程,而是针对每个孩子的个人课程。

People only have so much attention.

人们只有这么多关注。