The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

-- Ralph Adams Cram 拉尔夫·克拉姆

对完美的追求总是意味着明确的贵族，这是一个努力的目标，就像一个崇高的哲学，一个庄严的公民政治或伟大的艺术。

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Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

传记是一个非常明确的地域，它以历史为北，以小说为南，以讣告为东，以沉闷为西。

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I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.

当有人叫我小说家时，我总是抗拒:这暗示了小说固有的某种优越性。我不是小说家，我是作家。

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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

任何法律都不能废除真正的贵族制度:法律所能做的只是规定如何传授，以及由谁来获得。

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Aristocracy is always cruel.

贵族总是残忍的。

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