The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

  • -- Robertson Davies 罗伯逊戴维斯

我真的相信,牛津大学给她的儿子们最大的礼物,是对学习的一种温和的不敬,而这种不敬之情可能由此产生。

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The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude, in which every man was a law to himself, free to believe, and free to do what he pleased.

因此,改革家们,作为上帝手中的工具,把教会从奴役中解救出来,使其摆脱教士的束缚,并没有使它成为一群喧闹的群众。在这群群众中,每个人都是自己的法律,自由地信仰,自由地做自己喜欢做的事。

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

我们大多数人相信,只有当别人能以我们认可的方式快乐时,我们才会努力让他们快乐。

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

如果预期带来的快乐是最大的,请记住,烦恼也是如此。

My greatest competition is, well, me.

我最大的竞争对手是我。