Setting too good an example is a kind of slander seldom forgiven.

  • -- Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林

以身作则是一种很少被原谅的诽谤。

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It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source.

例如,令人感到好奇的是,对哲人之石的非凡传说进行反思,这是最古老和最普遍的信仰之一,它的起源,无论我们追溯到过去的记录中有多远,我们可能都无法找到它的真正来源。

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

如果你必须向孩子们树立榜样,那就把自己树立为一个警告,而不是榜样。