How mean to buy only as many books as one will actually have time to read.

  • -- Alain de Botton 阿兰·德波顿

一个人真正有时间读多少书,就买多少书,这是什么意思?

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness . . . it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair . . . in short, the period was so far like the present period . . . .

这是最好的时代,这是最坏的时代,这是智慧的时代,这是愚蠢的时代……这是希望的春天,这是绝望的冬天……简而言之,这段时期与现在的时期如此相似……

A lot of people assume you can think better with a slow diet of books, but that will not be the case for every reader. I prefer inundation.

很多人认为慢慢阅读可以让你更好地思考,但并不是每个读者都是这样。我更喜欢泛滥。

An attentive reader will always learn more, and more quickly, from good authors than from life.

一个细心的读者从优秀的作家那里学到的东西总是比从生活中学到的要多,也要快。

Everything we see Teaches the time that we are living in.

我们所看到的一切都在告诉我们所处的时代。