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Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

  • -- Quintilian 昆提利亚语

因此，缺乏才能的学生将不会从这项工作中获得更多的利润，就像从一篇农业论文中获得贫瘠的土壤一样。

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Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.

世人把旷野看作不毛之地，任意选择的人都可以自由居住;但事实上，每座山和山谷中都有一个人，他是公认的主人，他会迅速维护他的家庭或宗族对它的权利，以抵抗侵略。

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With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

随着农业的引进，人类进入了一段漫长的贫困、痛苦和疯狂的时期，直到现在他们才被机器的仁慈运转所解放。

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If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

人若患病，就当无羞耻。因为这是我们死后唯一的益处。你永远不会对邪恶和可耻的行为说好话。

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True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

真正的满足和农业一样活跃。它是一种力量，可以使你摆脱任何困境。这是艰巨的，也是罕见的。

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For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative.

对于我们每一个似乎有过成功实验的人来说，他们自己的实验对许多人来说似乎是空洞和消极的。

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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

事物的存在和本性是相互依存的，它们自身是虚无的。

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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

聪明人就是从书中从生活的烦恼中得到安慰。

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It is good to lend to God and to the soil--they pay good interest.

借给神和地原是好的，因为他们的利息本是好的。

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