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The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.

  • -- Harold Acton 阿克顿

总的来说，传记和自传比过去二十年的小说更令人印象深刻，但其中那些怪异的畅销书最不可能经受住时间的考验。

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Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times.

同样，思想也是一个系统。这个系统不仅包括思想和情感，还包括身体的状态;它包括整个社会，因为思想是在人与人之间来回传递的，思想是从古代进化而来的。

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A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.

你每天路过的那棵树只是一棵树。如果你仔细观察一棵树所拥有的和它所拥有的生命，即使是最小的东西也能经得起好奇心的考验，你可以观察整个世界。

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If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.

如果你想获得法律方面的信息，你不太可能为了获得你想要的知识而去阅读法律作家的大部头著作。

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The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.

最好的采访就像最好的传记一样，应该歌颂人类的奇特和多样性。

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If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.

如果一个人开始时所有的行为都很好，很可能他们也会有好的结局。

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All of these stories bounced around in my mind for a long time.

所有这些故事在我的脑海里萦绕了很长时间。

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The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.

买家需要一百只眼睛，卖家不需要一只。

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