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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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。

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

一个人如果曾经开怀大笑过,就不可能完全坏到无可救药的地步。

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

你身边到处都是人,把自己脚的毛病归咎于自己的靴子。