It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

  • -- Walter Bagehot 沃尔特·巴格霍特

人们常说,人们的想象力支配着他们;但更确切地说,是他们的想象力受到了限制。

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Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.

大多数想要写作的人都坐在地下室里,从他们的想象中把它拉出来。

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

衡量一个人,如果有什么比看他做了什么更真实的话,那一定是看他付出了什么。

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

我们往往因为软弱而狡诈,而不是因为算计。

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.

第一个动手的人承认他的主意已经行不通了。