A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

  • -- Lord Chesterfield 切斯特菲尔德勋爵

一个有理智的人只会和他们玩些鸡毛蒜皮的事,逗他们开心,奉承他们,就像他对待一个活泼好动的孩子一样;但他既不向他们请教,也不把严肃的事情托付给他们。

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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

只要一个人认为他不能做这个或那个,只要他下定决心不做它;因此,只要他不可能去做,他就会去做。

How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.

每件事都是那么琐碎!只有一个人的思想才能使房间里充满不仅仅是家具的东西。

Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it.

男人表现得好像对婚姻感到恐惧,但当他们找到自己的梦中情人时,他们爱上了她。