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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

  • -- W. Somerset Maugham 威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆

引用的能力是智慧的有效替代品。

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As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

正如曾经离开家的旅行者比从未离开过自己家的人更聪明一样，对另一种文化的了解应该提高我们更坚定地审视自己的能力，更深情地欣赏自己的文化。

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To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes.

实际上，征服自然就是消除一切自然障碍和人类准则，用人为的、捏造的等价物来代替自然过程。

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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

我所知道的最令人鼓舞的事实莫过于人类通过有意识的努力来提高自己的生活水平的无可置疑的能力。

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

如果努力工作的能力不是一种技能，那么它就是最好的替代品。

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The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.

最崇高的敬拜，就是尽你所能把自己做得最好。

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Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.

任何东西只要是巧克力做的就好。

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