I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.

  • -- Stuart Chase 斯图尔特·蔡斯

尽管我尽了最大的努力,我还是很难相信语言本身没有任何意义。一生的习惯不会轻易抛弃。

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Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you'll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone.

言语可以把一个人撕成碎片,也可以把它们重新组合在一起。我希望你好好利用你的语言,因为只有那些你故意用来伤害别人的话,才会让你比那些没有说出口的话更后悔。

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

没有想法总比没有想法强;什么都不相信,总比相信错的好。

I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie.

我有时相信他说的是真话,但我从来没有把他说的当作谎话。

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; And yet words are not deeds.

说不做。说得好是一种善行;然而,言语并不是行动。