A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

-- Victor Hugo 维克多雨果

放债的比奴隶主还坏;因为主人只欠你一个人的债，债主却欠你的体面，并且能制伏你。

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I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.

我首先是个作家，其次是个编辑……或者是第三，甚至第四。成功的编辑需要一套非常具体的技能，我并不声称我掌握了所有这些技能。

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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

晚上，当窗帘拉上，炉火摇曳，我的书获得了集体的尊严。

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By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

凭一个谎言，一个男人…摧毁了他作为一个男人的尊严。

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A conductor should guide rather than command.

指挥家应该引导而不是指挥。

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