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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

  • -- Oscar Wilde 奥斯卡王尔德

我能忍受蛮力，但蛮力的理智是相当难以忍受的。它的使用有些不公平。它打击的是智力。

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If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.

如果我们不能通过理性、通过影响、通过榜样、通过艰苦的努力和个人的牺牲来修补文明的坏地方，我们当然不能通过武力来做到这一点。

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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

做一个爱人比做一个丈夫容易，原因很简单:每天保持机智比时不时地说些好听的话更难。

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About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

关于语言的使用:用钝斧头削铅笔是不可能的。试着用十根钝斧头代替它也是徒劳的。

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It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

很明显，但也许值得说的是，幸福实际上与你的智力水平无关。

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Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

我们的文化特别推崇指责行为，认为这是美德和智慧的标志。

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Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

人类是唯一能够以理性的名义做出非理性行为的生物。

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I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

我不得不说，在空军一号上坐飞机会让你在普通航空公司做经济舱时感到不舒服。

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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

笑是理性的特权之一，仅限于人类。

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I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

我是这个世界上唯一一个我想彻底了解的人。

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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.

舌头是唯一随着使用而变得锋利的工具。

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