A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

The greatest risk in farming is standing still while the world changes around us.

真正的文学不仅娱乐，还质疑和改变。

I must confess that I never could see any beauty in her. Her face is too thin; her complexion has no brilliancy; and her features are not at all handsome. Her nose wants character; there is nothing marked in its lines. Her teeth are tolerable, but not out of the common way; and as for her eyes, which have sometimes been called so fine, I could never see anything extraordinary in them.

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.