Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

  • -- Russell Baker 拉塞尔·贝克

记者对世界的不幸幸灾乐祸。正因为如此,他们常常在令其他人类失望的事件中获得一种不体面的快乐。

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Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

后来,亲爱的姨妈常常问我,为什么我从来没有告诉过别人我是如何被对待的。孩子们所讲的不比动物多多少,因为他们所接受的是永恒不变的。

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really  mean anything.

生活是由微小的快乐组成的。幸福是由那些微小的成功组成的。大地震来的太不频繁了。如果你不把这些小的成功都收集起来,那么大的成功就没有任何意义。

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him

一个男人几乎总是因为他认为之外的原因去爱。情人对自己的秘密往往和他爱的对象对自己的秘密一样多

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

有道德的人常常为他们所受的约束和他们所激发的无聊而报复自己。

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

我发现我最大的乐趣,因此我的回报,在工作之前的世界所谓的成功。

The only thing we have to fear on the planet is man.

我们在这个星球上唯一要害怕的就是人类。

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

大自然的一触,使整个世界变得亲切。

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

偏见是愚人用来推理的东西。