An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity. To have many of these is to be spiritually rich. Life is only a very dull and ill-directed theatre unless we have some interests in the piece; and to those who have neither art nor science, the world is a mere arrangement of colours, or a rough footway where they may very well break their shins.
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渴望是永遠的樂趣，一筆如地產般真實穩固的.財富，用之不盡，取之不竭。每年我們都會因爲擁有渴望而充滿活力。一個人如有許多希望，精神便會富足。人生只不過是一場單調乏味且編導拙劣的戲，除非我們對這戲有些興趣;對於既沒有藝術細胞也沒有科學細胞的人來說，這個世界只不過是各種顏色的堆積，或者是一條崎嶇小路，一不小心就會摔傷小腿。
