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The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

  • -- Felix Frankfurter 费利克斯法兰克福

真正的文明人的标志是对求知欲所产生的力量和安全的信心。

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People ask me what I do in my spare time, and I look at them blankly, truly believing that I don't even have spare time, and if I did, I'd probably use it for something mundane, like chipping away at the mound of laundry rising to dangerous proportions in the back room.

人们问我我做什么在我的业余时间,我茫然地看着他们,真的相信我没有空闲时间,如果我做了,我可能会用它来世俗的东西,像在堆衣服后面房间里上升到危险的程度。

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The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

历史的概念本身就意味着学者和读者。如果没有一代文明人来研究历史，保存历史记录，吸取历史教训，并把它们与自身的问题联系起来，历史也将失去其意义。

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When the tempest rages, when the thunders roar, and the lightnings blaze around us it is then that the truly brave man stands firm at his post.

当暴风雨肆虐，雷暴咆哮，闪电在我们周围闪耀时，真正勇敢的人才会坚守岗位。

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This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

除非我们买书的钱比买口香糖的钱还多，否则我们永远不会成为一个文明的国家。

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