The end of reading is not more books but more life.

  • -- Holbrook Jackson 杰克逊

读书的目的不在于多读书,而在于多生活。

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How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

这样度过一个晚上是多么愉快啊!我声明,毕竟没有什么享受像阅读!一个人对任何事情的厌倦都比厌倦一本书快得多!要是我有了自己的房子,要是没有一间漂亮的书房,那才叫可怜呢。

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.

没有什么比读一本有关礼仪的书更能使人迅速地倾向于进修道院了。有那么多琐碎的方式可以让我们犯下一些社会罪行。

I'm just the librarian. I can only give you the books. I can't give you the answers.

我只是图书管理员。我只能给你书。我不能给你答案。

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

人类在第一本书问世的那天就不再是猿,而是被猿征服了。