The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

  • -- Jawaharlal Nehru 尼赫鲁

夸夸其谈自己美德的人往往是最没有美德的人。

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Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

诗歌的优点是能够在一半的时间里说两倍于散文的话,缺点是,如果你没有把全部的注意力放在诗歌上,那么你似乎在两倍的时间里说了一半的话。

The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.

一个好女人的道路上确实撒满了鲜花;但他们是站在她的身后,而不是前面。