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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

  • -- Henry Ward Beecher 亨利·沃德·比彻

哪里的人性像书店那么脆弱?

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A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength. You do this because you expect to get back more than you give.

一本书就像一个泵。它不会给你任何东西，除非你先给予它。你用你自己的水启动水泵，你用你自己的力量操纵手柄。你这样做是因为你期望得到的比你付出的多。

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I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.

我对杂耍很感兴趣。这是唯一的一种纪律，就是在舞台上表演五分钟，这是我真正喜欢并看到自己在做的事情。我在上面买了书。

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I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.

我可以走进一家书店，交出我的信用卡，他们却不知道我到底是谁。也许这能说明书店职员的一些问题。

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Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.

大多数进化的血统，无论是人类还是其他物种，在面临灭绝的威胁时，都不会做任何特别的事情来避免它。

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Men are fickle creatures, capable of kindness and compassion yet fascinated by the basest atrocities.

人是易变的动物，有能力善良和同情，但被最卑鄙的暴行所吸引。

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I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.

我不知道书店里有一个教授死亡的专区。

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Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows it can read printed words!

哦，神奇的时刻，当一个孩子第一次知道它可以阅读印刷文字!

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A book tightly shut but is a block of paper.

一本书紧紧地合在一起，不过是一张纸。

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