Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

  • -- Sydney J. Harris 悉尼J.哈里斯

一个年轻人刚刚发现了一个古老的想法,并认为这是他自己的想法,没有人能像他那样傲慢得可笑。

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You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.

你必须通过不断地在脑海中呈现美好事物的盛宴,以及等待成功实现或实现欲望的流动的喷泉,来强化和渲染连续性。

Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself.

爱衡量我们的身材:我们爱得越多,我们就越大。世界上没有比一个只顾自己的人更小的了。

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.

那些只崇拜自己的人会有一种光滑、光亮的外表——就像纪念碑一样。真可惜他们这么快就走了。

If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt.

如果你想有干净的想法,就像换衬衫一样经常换。