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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Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.

这样的讨论对我们欣赏艺术或诗歌的优秀作品帮助甚微,无法区分它们的优劣,也无法使用诸如“美”、“卓越”、“艺术”、“诗歌”等词汇,而这些词汇的含义比它们原本的含义更为精确。

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。

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

我们最大的光荣不在于从不跌倒,而在于每次跌倒之后都爬起来。

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

相信不存在幻觉本身就是一种幻觉。

A short absence is safest

短暂的离开是最安全的