A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
爱情会把大象从钥匙孔里拉出来。
I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
可以说，我只不过是一个媒介。
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
没有什么比一个年轻的悲观主义者更悲哀的了。
I believe in me more than anything in this world.
在这个世界上，我最相信自己。
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
对爱要比对任何事都谨慎一点。
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
生活模仿艺术远远超过艺术模仿生活。
To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
对我来说，老年总是比我大十岁。
It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
害怕比被爱安全得多。
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
从正确的开始，而不是从可以接受的开始。
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
图画破坏墙壁的次数比装饰墙壁的次数要多。
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
宽恕敌人比宽恕朋友容易。
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
如果你不能同时拥有恐惧和爱，那么被恐惧好过被爱。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
作为一个小商人，你没有比真相更大的影响力。
In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
在艺术中，手永远不能执行高于心所能想象的任何事情。
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
年老时的忠告是愚蠢的;因为，有什么比我们越接近旅程的终点，就为道路增加给养更荒唐的事呢?
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
统计学家的定义:一个人相信数据不会说谎，但他承认，在分析中，有些数据也站不住脚。
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
我想，没有什么，甚至没有犯罪，比这种没完没了的工作更反对诗歌，更反对哲学，更反对生活本身了。