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Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate.

  • -- Vanna Bonta 范娜·邦塔

平庸不能激发伟大的爱，也不能激发伟大的恨。

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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

每件大事都有一种神圣的恐怖。人们很容易赞美平庸和山丘;但是，无论什么东西太崇高，一个天才和一座山，一个集会和一个杰作，如果看得太近，都是令人震惊的。

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As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.

作为一种实际行动的工具，法律对其所处时代的智慧作出反应，虽然这种智慧可能是错误的，但它有时与这种智慧或激情背道而驰，将所接受的价值观发扬光大。

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Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

对于诗人来说，平庸现在和从前一样，是危险的，通常是致命的;但是，即使是成功的散文作家，那些理智地超越它的人也是非常罕见的例外。

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When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.

当爱生了病，我们能做的最好的事情就是把它暴死;我不能忍受一种挥之不去的消费激情的折磨。

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My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships.

我的仇恨总是比我的友谊更活跃地占据我的思想，并给我更大的精神上的满足。

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I don't like going out. I hate clubs. I hate being around too many people.

我不喜欢出去。我讨厌俱乐部。我讨厌周围有太多的人。

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