There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.

  • -- Arthur Phillip 亚瑟·菲利普

没有什么比思考秩序和有益的安排更令人愉快的了。

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Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

在我旅行的过程中,那种认为一切值得知道的事情都是在剑桥知道的想法逐渐消失了。在这方面,我的旅行对我非常有用。

I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.

我确实说过,在团体中,权威和纯洁是维持秩序所必需的,但我永远不会给他们一个全面的背书。

Old men like to give good advice in order to console themselves for not being any longer able to set bad examples.

老年人喜欢给出好的建议,以安慰自己不再能树立坏榜样。

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

我们必须与过去打交道,只有这样我们才能使它对现在和未来有用。

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

我不希望艺术只为少数人而存在,就像不希望教育只为少数人而存在,不希望自由只为少数人而存在。

It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.

就在几年前,我还没被雇来救我的命。