Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

  • -- Thomas Fuller 富勒

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The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.

考试的目的是认识错误,承认错误,改正错误。试着去做某事却失败了,这比什么都不做却成功要好得多。

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.

安逸胜过经商。除了时间,没有什么是真正属于我们的。

My parents are pretty good about keeping me humble. They brought me up good.

我父母很善于让我保持谦逊。他们把我抚养成人。

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

时间是大自然防止一切同时发生的一种方式。