Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

  • -- Charles Simmons 查尔斯·西蒙斯

迅速不仅是一种责任,也是良好礼貌的一部分;它有利于财富、声誉、影响和用途;稍加注意和精力就会养成习惯,使之变得轻松愉快。

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A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.

在这个多事之秋,许多失望和不幸都是文学和相关艺术的直接结果。我们相信,任何把自己的生命和精力用于幻想的人,从根本上来说都是不够的。

Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.

通常,一个远离聚光灯的人的镇定和精力决定了未来几个世纪的历史进程。

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

女人的美德往往只是对她们自己的宁静和对她们名誉的柔情的尊重。

My reputation grows with every failure.

我的声誉随着每一次失败而增长。