Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

  • -- William Hazlitt 威廉·哈兹里特

笛福说,在他那个时代,有成千上万的乡下人,不知道罗马教皇是人还是马,就准备同罗马教皇决一死战。

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Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

每一次恋爱都是唯一一次恋爱。目标的不同并不会改变激情的单一性。它只会使它更加强烈。我们最多只能有一次伟大的经历,而生命的秘密就是尽可能多地再现这种经历。

If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation.

如果你客观地观察动物一段时间,你就会得出这样的结论:它们生活的主要目的是把基因传给下一代。

Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.

寻找那些在你内心等待着开始你每天生活的斗争的东西。

In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.

在一场一对一的比赛中,谁在他的杂志上多投了一轮,谁就是胜利者。

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

偏执狂把真理拒之门外,使心灵显得渺小。