Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

  • -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge 柯勒律治

评论家通常都是诗人,历史学家,传记作家,如果可能的话。他们在一件事或另一件事上试过他们的才能,但都失败了;因此他们变成了批评家。

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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

当然,思想开放的问题在于,人们会坚持走过去,并试图把东西放进去。

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

被称为群体的生物的智力,是群体中人数的平方根。

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

历史重演。历史学家彼此重复。

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

重要的是创造历史,而不是写历史。