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An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

  • -- Walter Bagehot 沃尔特·巴格霍特

有一种夸大其词的成分附属于大众的判断:大恶习愈演愈烈，大美德也愈演愈烈;有趣的事件变得更有趣，更柔和的传说变得更柔和。

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Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

虽然所有好的艺术都是为了把人的思想从罪恶中拉出来，并把它引向更美好的事物，但这一功能可以通过艺术得到更充分的发挥，它也提供了非凡的智力乐趣。

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Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.

“主啊，从深处开始，从深处开始，”我们教会最美丽的事奉开始了，我必须从我生命的深处来讲述这个故事。

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Everything that I had done creatively related to two or three incidents that happened to me when I was a child that I'd forgotten. Everything, absolutely everything.

我所做的每一件创造性的事情，都与我小时候发生的两三件忘记的事情有关。一切,一切。

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So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.

因此，赞扬他人的美德只能鼓励自己的努力。

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Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

我推荐一条规则:永远不要同时做两件坏事。

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Great abilities produce great vices as well as virtues.

伟大的能力产生伟大的美德，也产生伟大的罪恶。

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I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager.

毫不夸张地说，我是个少年犯。

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Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs.

夸张就是画一条蛇，加上两条腿。

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