Young as he was, his instinct told him that the best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way - who husbands it too carefully to waste it where it can be dispensed with.

  • -- Samuel Butler 塞缪尔巴特勒

尽管他还年轻,但他的直觉告诉他,最好的说谎者是那些把最小的谎话说得最多的人——那些非常小心地把谎话花在可以扔掉的地方的人。

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We all have a natural instinct to protect children from harm. It's never fun to see a child hurt, even if it's just a scraped knee. But on the other hand, children need to take on physical challenges to learn and grow, and scraped knees and other bumps and bruises teach them valuable lessons about their own limits.

我们都有保护儿童免受伤害的自然本能。看到孩子受伤从来都不是一件有趣的事,即使只是擦伤了膝盖。但另一方面,孩子们需要接受身体上的挑战来学习和成长,擦伤膝盖和其他磕碰和瘀伤教会了他们关于自身极限的宝贵经验。

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

突然我意识到我不再有意识地开车了。我是凭一种本能驾驶它的,只是我在另一个维度上。

True words may not be pleasant, pleasant words may not be true.

真心话可能不好听,好听的话可能不真实。

No lies, just love.

没有谎言,只有爱。