If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

  • -- William Hazlitt 威廉·哈兹里特

如果我以前没有读过一本书,无论它是昨天出版的还是三百年前出版的,无论从任何意义上说,对我来说都是新的。

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There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and people are not being held to them. People's intentions, if they're said to be good and honorable, that's all that matters.

我们的文化正在经历这样的腐朽,这样的解体。价值观,道德等等。标准已经放宽,人们不再被要求遵守这些标准。人们的意图,如果他们被认为是好的和光荣的,那才是最重要的。

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.

一本好书应该给你留下丰富的经验,让你略显疲惫。读这本书的时候,你应该多活几辈子。

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

自传是一本书,一个人写自己的生活,它通常充满了各种无聊的细节。

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

如果你的意图是真诚的,那么你能学到的东西是惊人的。

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

爱读书的人什么都能得到。

The masses read with their stomachs.

群众凭胃读书。