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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

  • -- Jane Austen 简·奥斯汀

我一生都是一个自私的人，在实践上，虽然在原则上不是。

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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

像孩子一样的男人不是发育受阻的人;相反，他给了自己一个继续发展的机会，即使大多数成年人早已将自己包裹在中年习惯和习俗的茧中。

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One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

人们可能会把习惯称为道德摩擦:一种阻止思维掠过事物，但又将其与之联系起来，使其难以摆脱的东西。

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Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

如果我们仅仅遵循祖辈们所熟知的原则，没有十分之一的商界人士能做得那么好。

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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

如果我们对自己不都那么感兴趣，生活就会那么无趣，我们谁也无法忍受。

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Well, I know they've always told you/ Selfishness was wrong/ Yet it was for me, not you, I came to write this song/.

嗯，我知道他们总是说你/自私是错的/但我来写这首歌是为了我，不是为了你。

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The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

意识的第一步必须通过身体。

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Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

支配幸福的永恒原则平等地适用于所有人。

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