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IT HAD been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together in few words, than in that speech, Whatsoever is delighted in solit...

VIRTUE is like a rich stone, best plain set; and surely virtue is best, in a body that is comely ,though not of delicate features; and that hath rathe...

THE stage is more beholding to love, than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies, and now and then of tragedies; but in...

THERE be none of the affections, which have been noted to fascinate or bewitch, but love and envy. They both have vehement wishes; they frame themselv...

REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man' s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth bu...

TRAVEL, in the younger sort, is a part of education, in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entran...

HE THAT hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly ...

THE joys of parents are secret; and so are their griefs and fears. They cannot utter the one; nor they will not utter the other. Children sweeten labo...

欣赏导读 George Washington (1732-1799)，美利坚合众国的奠基人、第一任总统（1789-1797）。大种植园主家庭出身，早年在英国殖民军中服务。1775年北美独立战争爆发，同年6月15日被任命为13州起义部队总司令，7月3日在马萨诸塞州剑桥就任，直到胜利。下面的这封情书是他...

Napoleon to Josephine 拿破仑致约瑟芬 欣赏导读 Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)，法国资产阶级政治家、军事家、法兰西第一帝国和百日王朝皇帝。他在1797年威震半个欧洲；1808年在沙俄帮助下打败瑞典，除英国仍与之作战外。已经征服整个欧洲大陆，使整个欧...