We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

  • -- Thomas Mann 托马斯·曼

我们爱的不是品质,而是人;有时是因为他们的缺点,也因为他们的品质。

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The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals.

白人的血和骨头孕育了这个青铜种族,并在某种程度上给它留下了品质、倾向和能力,比如人类动物最高等级的遗传。

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

我们厌倦了一切,除了把别人变成笑柄,并为他们的缺点而庆幸自己。

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

两个基本的文学特质:超自然主义和反讽。

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

伟人的缺点是蠢人的安慰。