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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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself

如果你不善于爱自己,你将很难去爱任何人,因为你会怨恨你给别人的时间和精力,而你甚至没有给自己

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability yo overcome.

你可能会遭遇许多失败,但千万不要被打败。请记住你的困难并不能定义你。它们只是增强了你克服困难的能力。

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

没有诗人会把书面文字作为口头文字的替代品;他知道他的艺术是建立在口头上的,而且仅仅是口头上的。

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

伟人比他们的下级有一个最大的优势,那就是有和他们一样好的仆人。

I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability.

我永远不可能成为一名经理。我只有天生的才能。

The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.

经验最好的替代品是十六岁。