文化与修养（三）
Life is measured by thought and action, not by time.
生命的价值是思想行动，而非寿命长短来衡量的。——Avebury
To be truly happy is a question of how we begin and not of how we end, of what we want and not of what we have.
真正的幸福指的是我们如何开始，而不是如何结束；指的是我们渴求什么，而不是我们拥有什么。——R.L.Stevenson
Politeness costs nothing and gains everything.
礼貌不花费你一分钱，却能助你赢得一切。 ——Montagu
There is a great deal of difference between the eager man who wants to read a book, and the tired man who wants a book to read.
一个渴求知识的人去读一本书，一个懒散的人拿一本书来读，这两者之间有很大的区别。——G.K.Chesterton
That which has bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.
令你难以忍受的痛苦的事情可能带给你以甜美的回忆。——Fuller
Life is too short to be wasted in hatred, revenge, fault-finding, prejudice, intolerance and destruction.
人生短暂，不容我们把时间浪费于仇恨，复仇，吹毛求疵，偏见，偏狭和破坏上。 ——W.A.Peterson
It is not the fine coat that makes the gentleman.
并非考究的衣饰使人成为绅士。 ——Thomas Fuller
Wisdom is a tree that grows in the heart, and it’s fruit appears upon the tongue.
智慧是一棵树，生长于心中，果实结在舌上。——Friedrich Diez
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