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Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

  • -- William Penn 威廉·佩恩

读书太多是一种心灵的压抑，熄灭了自然的蜡烛，这就是世界上有那么多无知的学者的原因。

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I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested.

我总是有很好的理由把东西拿出来，但从来没有一个理由把东西放进去。我不想，因为这意味着这幅画被简化了。

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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

为了观点而压迫任何一个人，除了加深这些观点并使它们变得更重要之外，很少有其他效果。

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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

我们成为什么样的人，取决于我们在所有教授教完我们之后读了什么书。最伟大的大学是一所藏书的大学。

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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

读书不是为了反驳和驳倒，也不是为了相信和想当然……而是要权衡和考虑。

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The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

无知之所以如此之多，是因为拥有无知的人非常渴望分享无知。

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We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

我们应该感到悲伤，而不是沉沦在它的压迫之下。

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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

大脑:我们思考的工具。

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You are a prisoner of your own mind.

你是自己思想的囚徒。

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