If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.

  • -- William Gilbert 威廉·吉尔伯特

如果你希望在这个世界上提高你的优点,你一定会提高;你必须搅动它,把它弄断,然后自吹自擂,否则,相信我,你就没有机会了。

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The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.

世界上邪恶的通常原因是,在任何时候,世界上有一半的人是醒着的。

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace.

微笑是非常重要的。如果我们不能微笑,那么世界就不会有和平。

I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don't think I'd be very good at playing one.

我希望我有更多的英雄基因,但我不认为我会很擅长玩一个。

I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.

我决心给意第绪语一个争取生存的机会。

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

理解开始的第一个迹象是渴望死亡。

Even stories need a chance to sleep.

即使是故事也需要睡觉的机会。