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

  • -- Elbert Hubbard 埃尔伯特·哈伯德

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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The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.

阅读有关同一事件的新闻报道在全世界引起的同时的反应,可以说,为整个文明人类创造了共同的精神脉搏。

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

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。