Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

  • -- Henry David Thoreau 亨利·大卫·梭罗

书籍是世界上宝贵的财富,是世代相传的财富。

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Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.

经济学家们开始认识到,严格按照平均收入来衡量国家财富和贫困,并不能说明一个社会的健康状况或生存能力有多么重要。

If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.

如果联合国要生存下去,代表它的国家必须支持它;主张它的人必须服从它;相信它的人必须为之奋斗。

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

民族是政治独立的奇迹;种族是物理类比的原则。

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

很少有好书被写出来的原因是很少有人会写任何东西。

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?

有一本好书应该让你问:作者是怎么知道我的?

That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.

能处处寻求快乐的人才是最富有的人。