The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

  • -- Samuel Butler 塞缪尔巴特勒

一个人应该有一个严肃的信念,那就是什么事都不要太认真。

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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.

我首先想到的是,如果每个人都被安排到一个天生适合他的职位上,接受适当的教育,我就会明白这一点,也会明白我们能做些什么。

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.

给一只猫洗澡需要蛮力、毅力、信念的勇气——还有一只猫。最后一种成分通常最难获得。

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

除了每天穿多少件干净的衬衫之外,还有其他衡量一个男人自尊的标准。

However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.

然而,现在所有的天赋似乎都集中在一个人身上,一个人要么是传教士,要么什么都不是。