Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

  • -- Edith Wharton 伊迪丝·沃顿

习惯是必要的;一个人要想活下去,就必须不断地同这种习惯作斗争。

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Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

常识是世界上分布得最均匀的东西,因为每个人都认为自己很有天赋,即使是那些在其他事情上最难满足的人,也没有比他们已经拥有的东西更渴望得到常识的习惯。

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

养成读书的习惯,就是为自己建造一个避难所,使自己免受生活中几乎所有的不幸。