Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

  • -- W. H. Auden 奥登

名利常使作家虚荣,但很少使他骄傲。

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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

如果我们希望得到我们不可能拥有的东西,我们的行动和思考都是徒劳的,我们使生活成为一个比实际更伟大的梦想和阴影。

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

部分事实或半事实往往比完全的谎言更阴险。

A meaningless statement remains meaningless no matter how often it's heard.

一句毫无意义的话,无论听多少遍,都是毫无意义的。

It is vain to fish without a hook, or learn to read without a book.

钓鱼不带钩,读书不读书,都是徒劳的。