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华特•巴佐霍特 (BAGEHOT, Walter) ，1826 - 1877
英国经济学家、散文作家、新闻记者
• The cure of admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.
要治疗你对上议院的羡慕, 只要到那里去看一下.
• The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
人生最大的乐趣就是去做别人都说你不能做到的事.
• The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
最大的错误是尝试去做超过你能同意的事.
• An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.
没有能力保持安静是人类最明显的失败之一.
• It is good to be without vice, but it is not good to be without temptations.
没有罪恶当然好, 但没有诱惑可不好.
• Men who do not make advances to women are opt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
男人如果不追求女人, 就很容易成为被女人追求的猎物.
• One of the greatest pains of human nature is the pain of a new idea.
人性最大的痛苦之一是对一种新的意见的痛苦.
• A parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
国会只不过是一群多少有点懒散的人开大会的场所.
• Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
富人对贫穷难以理解; 很难了解人们为什么想吃晚餐时不按铃.
• Human nature is not a high thing, but at least it has a high idea of itself.
人类的天性并没什么了不起, 但它本身至少有一个高的理念.
菲立普•贝力 (BAILEY, Philip James) ，1816 - 1902
英国诗人、律师
• The worst men often give the best advice.
最没用的人常给以最好的劝告.
亚瑟•巴尔福伯爵 (BALFOUR, Arthur James, Earl of) ，1848 - 1930
英国政治家、哲学家
• I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
我以为他是个有为的年轻人, 但他看来像是个只会发誓的年轻人.
• It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
这是很不幸的, 考虑到这个世界是由热心来推动的, 但却没几个热心人仕可以信任来传播这一事实.
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