If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.

  • -- Victoria Wood 维多利亚·伍德

如果你表现正常,人们也会对你正常。只有当你表现得好像你是一个特别的人,他们才会觉得有必要遵守礼节。

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Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

即使社会要求男人和女人应该有特定的行为方式,也正是父母们不仅在孩子们说的话中,而且在他们的生活中,把这些方式教给孩子们。

One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.

作为一个贵族的缺点之一是,有时你不得不像一个贵族那样行事。

We should never permit ourselves to behave in excess except with those whom we will leave soon.

除了和那些即将离开的人在一起,我们绝不能允许自己表现得过分。

I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.

我不得不勤奋。谁勤奋,谁就会成功。