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When the world was young it begat more children; but now it is old it begets fewer: for I may justly account new plantations to be the children of former kingdoms.
当世界还年轻的时候，它生了更多的孩子;但现在它老了，生的少了，因为我可以理直气壮地说，新的种植园是以前王国的子孙。
— Francis Bacon 弗朗西斯·培根
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更多好句 ↗Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.
一旦你到了一个特定的国家，周围都是非常擅长传统音乐的音乐家，你就会突然意识到有多少东西需要去探索、消化、学习和体验。
Evelyn Glennie
伊夫林·格兰妮
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
人们从历史的教训中学不到多少，而这是所有历史教训中最重要的。
Aldous Huxley
奥尔德斯·赫胥黎
There is a certain inescapable attachment. If you are born somewhere and circumstances don't take you away from it, then you grow up and remain within it.
有一种无法逃避的依恋。如果你出生在某个地方，而环境并没有把你带离它，那么你就会在其中成长并停留。
Graham Swift
格拉汉姆·史威夫特
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
大多数人都有一种近乎无限的能力，认为一切都是理所当然的。人不能从历史的教训中学到很多东西，这是所有历史教训中最重要的一条。
Aldous Huxley
奥尔德斯·赫胥黎
The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves.
要想知道人们在特定时期过着怎样的生活，唯一的方法就是挖掘他们的记录，让他们为自己说话。
John Dos Passos
约翰·多斯·帕索斯
In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?
在文学史上，有许多伟大而不朽的作品，是作者生前没有发表过的。如果作者在写作中没有得到自我肯定，又怎么能继续写作呢?
Gao Xingjian
高行健