The only true source of politeness is consideration.

  • -- William Gilmore Simms 威廉·吉尔默·西姆斯

礼貌的唯一真正来源是体贴。

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We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true.

我们有一种倾向,认为每个人都是白痴,每个人只是在做一些白痴的事情,而这个世界是由一群不那么神秘的白痴控制的。我想这是有道理的,但也不是真的。

There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude, as rude as you have to be to stop such pollution of young minds in its tracks with a quick, unignorable shock.

有礼貌的时候,也有不得不粗鲁的时候,粗鲁得像你必须做的那样,用一种迅速的、不可忽视的震惊来阻止这种对年轻人思想的污染。

It's true, I don't like the real world.

这是真的,我不喜欢真实的世界。

If you bow at all, bow low.

如果你要鞠躬,那就低一点。