A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
教育比常备军更能保障自由。
The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms.
玫瑰没有任何解释;她绽放，因为她绽放。
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
请求原谅往往比请求允许更容易。
A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
旁观者往往比旁观者更能判断比赛的结果。
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
当蜡烛比蛋糕贵的时候，你就知道自己老了。
I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.
我认为艺术家的责任比人们意识到的要复杂得多。
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。
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
只有天堂本身比一个真正的朋友更好。
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
我通常要花三个多星期来准备一篇好的即席演讲。
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。
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
我的想象中没有比继续为艺术而活更美好的幸福了。
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
变老只不过是一个忙碌的人没有时间养成的坏习惯。
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I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
我总是惊讶于一个普通的观察者是如何给予如此多的信任和重视醒着的事情，而不是那些发生在梦里的事情……男人。是他记忆中最重要的玩物。
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。
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
商业比任何其他职业都更需要不断地与未来打交道;这是一种持续不断的计算，是对远见卓识的本能练习。
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。
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。