Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

  • -- Arthur Schopenhauer 亚瑟·叔本华

买书是一件好事,如果你还能买到时间来阅读的话:但是一般来说,买书会被误认为是占用了书的内容。

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The letters were universally complimentary, and we designers loved hearing that our games were being enjoyed, but if they weren't sending us a picture of their screens most of those writers would have spent their time playing the game rather than writing letters.

这些信件受到了普遍的好评,而我们这些设计师也喜欢听到人们喜欢我们的游戏,但如果他们不给我们发送他们屏幕上的照片,那么大多数作者将会把时间花在玩游戏而不是写信上。

I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.

我把书塞进口袋。我向你保证,停止阅读就像从一段古老而牢固的友谊的庇护下挣脱出来。

In time they could not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed.

他们甚至不能追着帽子飞。他们称之为缺乏练习;但真正的意思是他们不再相信。

But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.

但每件事都有合理的分工。这本书是我写的,无论如何也引不起我去读它。

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

你要记住,当你评价这本书的时候,这本书也在评价你。

You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.

你写得很轻松,以显示你的教养,但写得容易,读起来难。

A good book is never finished it goes on whispering to you from the wall.

一本好书永远读不完,它会在墙上对你窃窃私语。

Human sympathy has its limits.

人类的同情是有限度的。