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現在的學生不論治學態度，無恥地要求授予高分，叫教授們嘆為觀止。但其實當一個學生視自己為消費者，來買的是一張學歷而非教育，這也屬意料之內。
—麥克艾朵（美國記者）

“Professors marvel at the way students now shamelessly demand to be given good grades, regardless of their work ethic, but that’s exactly what you would expect if the student views themselves as a consumer, and the product as a credential, rather than an education.”
—Megan McArdle, American journalist

舉止是一面鏡子，每個人都可以從中照出自己的模樣。
—奧蒂莉日記摘抄，歌德「親和力」

“Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image.”
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities, extracts from Ottilie’s diary

一個國家可以突然間，舉國上下瘋狂追求軍事光環；又可能在突然間，沉淪在某種宗教顧慮中，直至血流成河、哀鴻片野，理智這才逐漸恢復，而後代卻要為此無辜受累。
—查爾斯．麥凱（蘇格蘭作家）

“We see one nation suddenly seized, from its highest to its lowest members, with a fierce desire of military glory; another as suddenly becoming crazed upon a religious scruple; and neither of them recovering its senses until it has shed rivers of blood and sowed a harvest of groans and tears, to be reaped by its posterity.”
—Charles Mackay, Scottish journalist

夢是詩和傳奇中的光明生物，他們在黑夜裡遊戲人間，在初升的第一縷陽光中消逝，陽光每日在世界上巡行，照亮冷酷的憂患和嚴峻的現實。
—狄更斯（英國作家）
“Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.”
—Charles Dickens, English writer

國外的光榮，往往意味著國內的困頓。
—亨德里克．威廉．房龍（荷蘭裔美國作家）

“Glory abroad too often means misery at home.”
—Hendrik van Loon, Dutch American author