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But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

  • -- Edward Gibbon 爱德华·吉本

但是，教育的力量很少有多大作用，除非是在那些几乎是多余的快乐的性情中。

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Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness.

我想，这就是我的天性吧，我喜欢结交新朋友，而且很愿意和他们断绝关系，虽然我这样做总是有充分的理由，而且决不是由于一时的浮躁。

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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

鉴于外部现实是虚构的，作者的角色几乎是多余的。他不需要虚构，因为小说已经存在了。

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The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.

在其他条件相同的情况下，智力的平均水平越高，爱管闲事、爱挑剔和专横跋扈的人就越少。

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I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.

我本可以成为一名建筑师，但我不认为我会很开心。在我看来，几乎所有的现代建筑都是一个愚蠢的游戏。

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Nobody lay awake at night wondering if the wheat they raised was truly happy and fulfilled being made into bread.

晚上躺在床上睡不着觉的人都不知道，他们种的小麦被做成面包后，是否真的感到快乐和满足。

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Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.

悲观主义者并不无聊。悲观主义者是正确的。悲观主义者是多余的。

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