Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.

  • -- Sydney Smith 史密斯

找错处的时候一定要在私下找错处,如果可能的话,要在冒犯之后找错处,而不是在那个时候。

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Especially if it's a wild animal, I find the readers are intrigued. And if your reader's intrigued right away, you've won half the battle of telling a story."

特别是如果是野生动物,我发现读者们很感兴趣。如果你的读者立刻对你感兴趣,你就已经赢得了讲故事的一半战斗。”

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

只有大自然才知道如何使过错与应得的惩罚成正比例。

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.

我们乐意使别人十全十美,但我们不能改正自己的错误。

The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times.

问题是,读者不想听到糟糕的时代。

Fools ask what's o'clock, but wise men know their time.

傻瓜问时间,聪明人知道时间。

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

我渴望秩序,却发现它只存在于艺术中。