Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

  • -- William Wordsworth 威廉·华兹华斯

图画破坏墙壁的次数比装饰墙壁的次数要多。

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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

书籍构成的资本。图书馆里的书可以和房子一样长,可以保存几百年。因此,它不仅是一种消费工具,而且是一种相当可观的资本,而且就职业人士而言,它往往是他们人生中唯一的资本。

If all I hired were cake decorators, our cakes would just look like cakes that people decorate. We do astounding work at Charm City Cakes and to do that you need people who think in astounding ways. Artists just think in different ways.

如果我雇佣的都是蛋糕装饰师,我们的蛋糕看起来就会像人们装饰的蛋糕。我们在魅力城市蛋糕公司做着令人惊叹的工作,要做到这一点,你需要用令人惊叹的方式思考的人。艺术家只是用不同的方式思考。

A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.

一个孩子也永远无法理解这样一个事实:同样是这位母亲,她做饭做得那么好,那么关心他的咳嗽,那么慈祥地帮助他做作业,在某些情况下,她对他的感情不过是隐藏在他内心世界的一堵墙。

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

后来,亲爱的姨妈常常问我,为什么我从来没有告诉过别人我是如何被对待的。孩子们所讲的不比动物多多少,因为他们所接受的是永恒不变的。

I signed so many of those pictures. Somebody made a lot of money off that photo. I know that. It's good. It helped us win. That's the biggest thing.

我签了很多这样的照片。有人从那张照片上赚了很多钱。我知道。很好。它帮助我们赢了。这是最重要的。

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.

物理学有一种方法,化学有另一种方法,生物学有第三种方法。

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

对所有人都要有礼貌,但对少数人要有亲密的关系,让那些少数人在你给他们信心之前得到充分的考验。

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

只有天堂本身比一个真正的朋友更好。

Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.

新奇总是受欢迎的,但会说话的照片只是一种时尚。

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

从正确的开始,而不是从可以接受的开始。

Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.

有些人被迫成为伟人,但不是最近。

"Someone questions are more important than answers."

“有些人的问题比答案更重要。”

The weakest go to the wall.

弱者碰壁。