If two neighbors want to fight, they will find a quarrel in a straw.

如果两个邻居要打架,他们会找个借口的。

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If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.

如果哥本哈根是一个人,这个人应该慷慨,美丽,年老,但有才华。一个人有一定的争吵倾向,充满想象力,对新事物充满欲望,对旧事物充满敬意——一个能很好地照顾人和事的人。

The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.

社会学家和历史学家之间的争论是,历史学家学到了太多关于如何做这件事的知识,以至于他们忘记了该做什么。他们已经变得如此善于发现事实,以至于他们对那些使事实值得发现的事实毫无用处。

Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.

你待自己要像你的邻舍待自己一样,并且要使人喜悦。

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

嫉妒的人因邻居的成功而变得消瘦。