There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

  • -- Philip James Bailey 菲利普·詹姆斯·贝利

没有什么比冷淡地接受卓越更能证明缺乏最高的道德和智力素质了。

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

明白事理的人使自己适应世界;不讲道理的人坚持要使世界适应他自己。因此,所有的进步都取决于不讲道理的人。

It's a surer way to a woman's heart to be interested in what she's thinking than what she's wearing or not wearing.

对女人来说,关心她在想什么比关心她穿什么或不穿什么更能打动她的心。

Falling asleep in your arms again reminded me that I was only half a person in your absence. You make me whole.

在你的臂弯里入睡再次提醒我,在你不在的时候,我只是半个人。你使我完整。

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

我尽我所知做到最好——尽我所能做到最好;我打算一直这样做到最后。

Absence of occupation is not rest; a mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

无所事事不是休息;十分空虚的心灵是痛苦的心灵。