The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

  • -- Stephen Leacock 李柯克

经典只是原始文学。它们与原始机械、原始音乐和原始医学属于同一类。

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Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

很少有人会离开学者安全的隐居生活,远离文坛和学术界的宁静,而成为不友善和敌对思想的批判对象。

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

生活是一件美好的事情,可以谈论,也可以在历史书中读到——但是当一个人不得不生活的时候,它是可怕的。

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

科学就是所有总是成功的食谱的总和。其余的都是文学作品。

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

读书使人充实。善于交谈的人;写一个严谨的人。

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

如果你手里拿着一本书,你就是一个新城市的朝圣者。

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

我是我发明的方法的原始人。

Reading maketh a full man.

读书使人充实。