To make pleasures pleasant shortens them.

  • -- Charles Buxton 查尔斯·巴克斯顿

使快乐变得愉快会缩短它们。

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He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.

在我看来,他似乎只是在生活,在合理地利用生活,他给自己安排了一些严肃的工作,并为一项出色而巧妙地完成的任务寻求荣誉。

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

想象的乐趣就像图画和模型一样,是那些买不起真品的穷人玩的。

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

最好的快乐总是那些意想不到的。

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

因为我的身高,我没能进入国际象棋队。