Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

  • -- Arthur Schopenhauer 亚瑟·叔本华

买书是一件好事,如果你还能买到时间来阅读的话:但是一般来说,买书会被误认为是占用了书的内容。

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Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.

爱国主义在不同的时期,就像剃刀一样,有着截然不同的用途。剃刀本应用来清洁你的脸,但也可能用来割自己或无辜的人的喉咙。

It was always tough, but today we are in the throes of something we have never seen in our history. It's clear in recent times the market is looking for a bottom.

过去一直很艰难,但今天我们正处于历史上从未有过的痛苦之中。很明显,最近市场正在寻找底部。

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

她强迫自己快速地阅读书籍,一本又一本的平装书,仿佛没有了书页的锚,她就会飘然离去。

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel as if you've lost a friend.

当你翻到最后一页的时候,你知道你读了一本好书,感觉就像失去了一个朋友。

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

除了狗,书是人类最好的朋友。狗的肚子太黑了,没法看书。

One of the smartest things one can do in life sometimes…is play stupid. Be encouraged.

人生中最聪明的事情之一就是装傻。被鼓励。

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.

有权势的人没有时间读书;不读书的人,不配得权柄。

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

还有比焚书更严重的罪行。其中之一就是不读。