We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

  • -- Evelyn Waugh 伊芙琳·沃

我们校长必须用欺骗来锻炼自己的判断力。

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The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a horse-hair put into a bottle of water will turn into a snake.

任何向神学屈服的科学家,无论多么微不足道,都是在向无知和虚假的伪装屈服,就像他肯定地承认把一根马毛放进一瓶水里就会变成一条蛇一样。

I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.

我带孩子们去教堂和主日学校。他们喜欢它。我真的认为让孩子感觉到有比你的生活更重要的事情是很重要的。

Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.

每个人都有一定的自由裁量权,他有权期望邻居不会侵犯他的自由裁量权。这种权利来自人的本性。

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

没有人说到做到,但很少有人说到做到,因为语言是滑的,思想是粘滞的。

Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.

如果可以的话,要比别人聪明,但不要告诉他们。

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

欺骗别人。这就是所谓的浪漫。