It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

-- Isaac D'Israeli 艾萨克·迪斯雷利

当优秀的作品摆在我们面前时，满足于平庸是一种令人不快的品味。

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Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are lost.

一旦你第一次说谎，第一次为他说谎，你就和他在一起，然后你就迷失了。

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Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.

平庸之辈总能凭借人数取胜，但它只会赢得更多平庸之辈。

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What lies behind the heart is a story to be shared with the world.

藏在内心深处的是一个可以与世界分享的故事。

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I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity.

我害怕自己不能超越平庸。

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