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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

  • -- W. H. Auden 奥登

朋友之间品味或意见的差异与他们的琐事成正比，令人生厌。

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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

为什么我们的记忆力好到可以记住发生在我们身上的最小的琐事，却不能回忆起我们对同一个人说过多少次?

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In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches, we settle down, literally and figuratively.

在年轻的时候，我们通过游戏和跑步得到了大量的锻炼，但随着中年生活的临近，我们在字面上和比喻上都安定下来了。

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How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

为什么我们记得发生在我们身上的最微不足道的小事，却不记得我们有多少次向同一个人讲述过这些事情?

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Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

机智是对差异的辨别。它包含有意识的偏差。

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