No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.

  • -- Cyril Connolly 西里尔·康诺利

没有一种品味比别人的思维品质更容易获得。

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Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.

然而,组织的存在与它们所受道德规范的范围成正比。因此,组织的持久性取决于领导的素质;这种品质来自于它所依赖的道德的广度。

There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.

实际的工具有一个可爱的特性。人们对能使手服从大脑的东西感觉如此亲切。此外,人们对它感到极大的尊重;没有它,大脑和手将是无助的。

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.

平庸的人往往拥有最渊博的知识。

Reality is an acquired taste.

现实是一种后天培养的品味。