A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
图书
Books
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
许多好的谚语可以在圣经中找到，但是仅仅阅读它们并不会使一个人虔诚。
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
读书不是为了反驳和驳倒，也不是为了相信和想当然……而是要权衡和考虑。
He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
他喜欢阅读这一简单的行为，喜欢把书页上的划痕在脑子里变成文字的魔力。
If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college.
如果你参观的大学书店里卖的是t恤而不是书，那就另找一所大学。
Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
书籍就像种子。它们可以休眠数百年，然后在最贫瘠的土地上开花。
Books and movies, they are not mere entertainment. They sustain me and help me cope with my real life.
书籍和电影不仅仅是娱乐。他们支持我，帮助我应付我的现实生活。
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
没有一艘战舰像一本书一样把我们的土地带走，也没有一艘骏马像一页跳跃的诗歌。
In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.
在我的任何一本书的任何一页上，愿生命完美地记述我对世界的秘密体验。
I'm the first to admit that I don't write right. Now, relax and enjoy the show! The sideshow, that is.
我是第一个承认我写得不对的人。现在，放松下来，享受这场表演吧!那就是杂耍。
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
一个人，不管是绅士还是女士，如果对一本好的小说不感兴趣，那他一定是愚蠢得令人无法忍受。
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
人类所做的、想过的或曾经做过的一切，都像魔法一样保存在书页之中。
A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
审查员是尖刻评论的专家。审查官是一个知道的比他认为你应该知道的更多的人。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
世界是一本书，不旅行的人只读其中的一页。
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
有些书让我们自由，有些书让我们自由。
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
从真正意义上说，读过优秀文学作品的人比那些不会或不愿读的人活得更长。我们并不是只有一次生命;如果我们能读书，我们就能过上更多的生活，过上我们想过的各种各样的生活。
Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
当我们不得不呆在原地的时候，阅读给了我们一个地方去。
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
对美的感知是一种道德测试。
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
一本文笔优美的书就像一张魔毯，把我们带到一个我们无法以任何其他方式进入的世界。