A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

  • -- Samuel Johnson 塞缪尔·约翰逊

一个人要翻半个图书馆才能写一本书。

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I have a home-school group with a couple of my friends. We switch off going to each others' houses and going to the library to do art and stuff. It's almost like our own little school - a really little school.

我和几个朋友组成了一个家庭学校小组。我们不再去别人家,也不再去图书馆做艺术之类的事情。这就像我们自己的一所小学校——一所非常小的学校。

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

每个人都有权利说出他认为是真理的东西,每个人都有权利把他打倒。殉道是一种考验。

I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.

我去过很多地方,做过很多事情,但写作永远是第一位的。这是一种我不能没有的痛苦。

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

图书馆是学习的殿堂,学习解放了比历史上所有战争解放了更多的人。

Being discouraged is natural but giving up is not an option.

沮丧是自然的,但放弃不是一个选择。

Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.

谁是智者?他看到了将要诞生的一切。