Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?

  • -- John Watson Foster 科士达

很少有人能充分意识到这种节约在阅读中的重要性,因为阅读几乎完全是选择书籍的第一顺序。为什么,除了一些特殊的原因,在你可能正在阅读最高等级的书的时候,却要读一本劣等的书呢?

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From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.

从火、水、时间的流逝、疏忽的读者和审查人员的手中,我的每一本书都逃过一劫,讲述了它的故事。

My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.

我母亲从不注重外表。她让我们在自己的时间线上成长。她从未强迫我接受任何美容疗法。