When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

  • -- Mark Twain 马克·吐温

当我成为国王时,他们不仅有面包和住所,而且还有书本上的教导,因为在思想饥饿的地方,饱腹是没有什么价值的。

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God, he thought, her eyes are so bright, flashing, deep, full of promise, all those things eyes are in books but never are in life, and she was his.

上帝啊,他想,她的眼睛是那么明亮,闪烁,深邃,充满希望,所有这些东西眼睛都在书里,但从来没有在生活中,而她是他的。

If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.

如果你不能在人生的早期就找到自己,你就会在所有错误的地方寻找你自己。

Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.

文学教授收集书籍就像船收集藤壶一样,毫不费力。

Books are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you.

书是一面镜子:你只能从里面看到你内心已经有的东西。