Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

  • -- Austin Phelps 奥斯汀·菲尔普斯

阅读有时是一种避免思考的巧妙方法。

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It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.

这需要某种真诚的信念——但我有这种信念——去相信,那些阅读和反思的人,很可能会带着慷慨和真理来评判事物。

I felt the weakness of these books, their immateriality, how they had failed to change the world, and I didn't want to sully myself with their weakness anymore.

我感受到了这些书的弱点,它们的非物质性,它们未能改变世界,我不想再让它们的弱点玷污我自己。

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

你读的书越多,你知道的东西就越多。你学得越多,你要去的地方就越多。

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

拥有上帝和好书为伴的人不会被称为没有朋友。