Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

  • -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 利希滕贝格

就像我们长大后不再穿裤子一样,我们也不再穿熟人、图书馆、原则等等,有时裤子还没穿坏,有时——这是最糟糕的——还没有新裤子。

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We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both.

我们在与一切竞争:海滩、商场、书店。图书馆现在正处于转型之中,夹在两股力量之间,一股是旧的方式,另一股是技术。图书馆承受着提供这两种服务的巨大压力。

You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.

作为一名政治家,你可以从对世界的广泛了解和拥有一些外部利益所带来的一定程度的独立性中提高自己的效率。

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

培养孤独,安静和几个真诚的朋友,而不是乌合之众的欢乐,噪音和成千上万点头之交。

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

大多数孩子有时威胁要离家出走。这是唯一能让一些家长坚持下去的事情。

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

我们不仅可以知道所有的事情。我们所做的。我们只是告诉自己不要让这一切变得可以忍受。

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

那位作家做得最多,他给读者的知识最多,花的时间最少。

We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.

我们平等地来到这个世界,也平等地离开这个世界。

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

对历史学家来说,图书馆是食物、庇护所,甚至是灵感之源。