People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance.

  • -- Frances Burney 弗朗西斯·伯尼

生活在一起的人很自然地会注意到彼此的容貌和神态,他们没有共同的特征,但在整个面部表情上却有某种相似之处。

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I don't design cars. I'm not a designer. I know what I desire to be built, I know what the end result is, the horsepower, the competition we'll be working against - but I leave it to the people who work with me to put it all together. I don't do anything.

我不设计汽车。我不是设计师。我知道我想要什么,我知道最终的结果是什么,马力,我们将要面对的竞争——但是我把这一切留给和我一起工作的人去完成。我什么都不做。

Learn to ask for what you want. The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for which is precisely where you were before you asked.

学会要求你想要的。最糟糕的情况是,别人没有给你想要的东西,而你恰恰在开口之前就得到了。

A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.

当一个人主要关心的是成为他应该成为的人的愿望时,他是简单的,这是诚实和自然的人性。

So you can't lose serving God, and that all things work together for good.

所以你不能失去对上帝的服侍,所有的事情都是为了好的。

I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.

我天生沉默寡言,成了一个沉默而专注的倾听者。

The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner.

魔鬼是乐观主义者,如果他认为他能使人变得更小气。