The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

  • -- W. Somerset Maugham 威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆

人们普遍认为,成功使人变得虚荣、自我中心和自满,从而使人堕落,这种观点是错误的;相反,它使他们,在大多数情况下,谦虚,宽容和善良。

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Nashville has a formula, and it works a lot of the time, but it wasn't right for me. They're afraid to step outside the box - even though, with me, my success came because I was outside of the box to begin with.

纳什维尔有一个公式,它在很多时候都是有效的,但它并不适合我。他们害怕跳出框框——尽管我的成功是因为我一开始就跳出了框框。

And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.

我不相信女性能成功地拥有这一切。我真的不喜欢。

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

把医生立为继承人的病人不大可能康复。

He that laughs at his ain joke spoils the sport o't.

对自己的笑话一笑了之,会毁了自己的兴致。

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

天之爱使人天堂。