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In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

  • -- Sydney Smith 史密斯

写作时，一般来说，把你写的每一个字都用笔写一遍;你不知道它会给你的风格带来多大的活力。

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It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.

这是一个很好的规则永远不会看到或跟的人字已经逼迫你的心,或者帮助它,就像它是明智的,我不会过于密切有时在明亮的光线照在你的路径在一个夏天的夜晚,如果你不会看到下面的丑陋的虫子。

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If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present.

如果我们最称职的总参谋部官员被告知要制定出他们所能想到的最荒谬的战争高级组织，他们就不会做出比我们目前所拥有的更愚蠢的东西了。

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The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same conditions as the testimony of any one of them.

在这种情况下，指导我们的规则是简单而明显的:我们邻国的全部证词与任何一个邻国的证词一样，都必须符合同样的条件。

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Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

没有什么比一句格言更没用的了。

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