A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

  • -- Horace Mann 霍勒斯·曼

没有书的房子就像没有窗户的房间。如果一个人有能力买书,他就没有权利不让孩子们读书而把他们抚养成人。

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Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

因此,让我们温柔而仁慈地珍惜知识的手段。让我们敢于读、想、说、写。

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

除非读者使用它们,使它们复活,否则书籍确实是死的东西。