Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

  • -- Ambrose Bierce 比尔斯

修院-妇女的退休的地方,谁希望有闲暇沉思的罪恶的懒惰。

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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

如果闲暇和好奇心不被细微的模仿和费力的琐事所分散,它们可能很快就会在有用的知识方面取得巨大的进步。

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

一定有人警告过你,不要让黄金时间白白溜走;但有些是金色的,只是因为我们让它们溜走了。

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

我们做的越多,我们能做的就越多;我们越忙,就越有空。

Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.

看、听、感觉是奇迹,我身上的每一个部分和每一个标签都是奇迹。

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

人们写回忆录是因为他们缺乏想象力。

Better lose your labour than your time in idleness.

宁可失去劳动,也不要虚度光阴。