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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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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

生活已经养成了不站着结婚的习惯。你得像找到它一样骑着它。你得跟着改变。如果一天过去了，你的一些旧观念还是没有改变，那就像挤死牛一样。

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The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

战争的自然原则是:以最小的伤害自己，最大的伤害敌人;这当然要靠策略来实现。

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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

你的任务不是去寻找爱，而仅仅是寻找并发现你内心所筑起的所有障碍。

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We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

我们想象自己想要逃离自私和平庸的生活，但我们却拼命地抓住枷锁不放。

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As it is with a play, so it is with life, what matters is not how long the acting lasts, but how good it is.

正如戏剧和人生一样，重要的不是演出能持续多久，而是演出有多好。

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All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.

人类所有伟大的事业都是在绝对原则的名义下完成的。

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He draws water over his own rice field.

他在自己的稻田上引水。

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