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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In stating the principles which regulate exchangeable value and price, we should carefully distinguish between those variations which belong to the commodity itself, and those which are occasioned by a variation in the medium in which value is estimated, or price expressed.

在说明调节可交换价值和价格的原则时,我们应仔细区分属于商品本身的变化和由于估价或表示价格的媒介的变化而引起的变化。

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

如果你想在大事上取得卓越,你就得在小事上养成习惯。优秀也不例外,它是一种普遍的态度。

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。

Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters.

我保证,养成打开计时器的习惯,会让你免于厨房里的许多灾难。

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。

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

如果一个人太拘泥于自己的原则,他就很难见到任何人。

Selfishness stops the flow of blessings to you and others.

自私会阻止祝福流向你和他人。

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

礼貌只是一般自私的表面现象。