Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.

  • -- Thomas Edward Brown 托马斯·爱德华·布朗

文学是我向同胞们举起镜子的召唤,这对我来说很自然;在开放的发明领域,我并不是没有希望给他们带来快乐。

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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

现代发明已经淘汰了纺车,同样的进步规律使今天的女人与她的祖母截然不同。

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

我现在已经完全改掉了喜欢社交的毛病,不管是在乡下还是在城里。一个明智的人应该在自己身上找到足够的同伴。

I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.

我喜欢时尚,因为它包含了一天的心情,当下的时刻-像音乐,文学和艺术。

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

所有的感知也是思考,所有的推理也是直觉,所有的观察也是发明。

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

电影是文学、戏剧、音乐和所有视觉艺术的复杂碰撞。

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

人生最大的乐趣是爱。