Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

  • -- William Shenstone 威廉·申斯通

宏伟与美丽是如此的对立,以至于你常常在增加美与减少美的同时,也在减少美。多样性与后者最为相似,简单性与前者最为相似。

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Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.

年龄并不能减少冰淇淋从蛋卷上掉下来时的极度失望。

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

朴素中有一种庄严,这远远超过了机智的奇异之处。

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

进步是人类使简单复杂化的能力。