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The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
教育的目的是使青年人作好终生自学的准备。
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
我们所说的管理，大部分是让人们难以完成工作。
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
只有艺术家才能看到灵魂。但当他告诉大家他们出现在他面前时，每个人都看到了他们。
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
教育,n。诗歌向智慧人显明自己无知的，向愚昧人隐藏自己无知的。
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
当小人物企图做大事业时，他们总是以使其沦落为平庸告终。
It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was.
在传统上，继承人是在有庇护的环境中长大的。没人认为我是对的，但事实确实如此。
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
群众追求伟大，不是为了他们，而是为了他们的影响力;伟人出于虚荣心和需要欢迎他们。
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
大多数人失败是因为他们缺乏坚持去制定新的计划来代替那些失败的计划。
Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.
他们的座右铭是“感谢上帝，今天是星期五”。“他们为周末而活，那时他们可以去做自己真正想做的事情。
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
今天的很多教育都非常低效。我们常常在应该教年轻人自己种花的时候，却给他们插花。
Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do.
鲸鱼只有在浮出水面时才会被鱼叉叉住，海龟只有在伸出脖子时才会向前移动，但投资者无论如何都要面临风险。
Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.
严重性应立即处理，以便他们的突然可能给较少的冒犯;福利应该一点一滴地发放，这样人们才会更加珍惜。
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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
宽恕你的敌人，但永远不要忘记他们的名字。
Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
男人只考虑他们的需要，从不考虑他们的能力。
He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
靠水晶球生活的人很快就学会吃磨碎的玻璃。
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
帮助我们的与其说是朋友的帮助，不如说是他们帮助我们的信心。
The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
诚然，想要获得更多是非常自然和常见的事情;当人们成功做到这一点时，他们总是受到赞扬而不是谴责。但当他们缺乏这样做的能力，却又想不惜一切代价获得更多时，他们的错误就应该受到谴责。