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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

  • -- Honoré de Balzac 尊敬的巴尔扎克

礼貌只是一般自私的表面现象。

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If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present.

如果我们最称职的总参谋部官员被告知要制定出他们所能想到的最荒谬的战争高级组织，他们就不会做出比我们目前所拥有的更愚蠢的东西了。

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There's nothing more exciting for an actor than a chance to lose, to be someone who has lost - especially if it's someone who starts off with a veneer of control. To be broken is wonderful.

对于一个演员来说，没有什么比失去一个机会更令人兴奋的了，成为一个已经失去的人——尤其是当这个人一开始就有一种控制的假象的时候。被打破是美好的。

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It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.

礼貌太多总比太少好，只要你对所有人都没有同样的礼貌，因为那是不公平的。

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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

我一生都是一个自私的人，在实践上，虽然在原则上不是。

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Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong.

有礼貌，有怜悯，有骄傲，有力量的王子。

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Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

没有什么比一句格言更没用的了。

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A miser and his persimmon seeds.

一个守财奴和他的柿子。

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