The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

  • -- Walter Bagehot 沃尔特·巴格霍特

说话习惯的共同性和连续性是智力缺陷的一种症状。它源于不知道别人在想什么。

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Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life.

自然选择从来没有让一块没有支撑的石头向下移动而不是向上移动成为自然的一种习惯。它并不适用于无机自然的任何部分,甚至在有机生命的现象中也非常有限。

A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.

一本精心挑选的选集是一个完整的药房,为更常见的精神疾病的药物,并可以用于预防和治疗。

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

写任何形式的精神疾病,尤其是你自己的疾病,都很难不让人觉得你是在检查玻璃下的一只虫子。

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

说话要得体,尽量少说话,但一定要简明扼要;因为言语的结局,不是炫耀,乃是叫人明白。

An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing.

演员不应该接受心理分析,因为有很多事情你最好不知道。

Talkativeness is a symptom of deep-seated pessimism. Without it there would be no pessimistic literature.

多嘴多舌是一种根深蒂固的悲观主义的症状。没有它,就不会有悲观的文学。

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

爱情最强烈的症状是一种有时几乎令人无法忍受的温柔。

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters

习惯不是最好的仆人,就是最坏的主人

A fool's speech is a bubble of air.

蠢人的讲话是空话。