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《世界上最优美的散文——人生短篇》
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内容简介： 流传千年的至理名言，震撼心灵的永恒经典！精选78篇精美散文，让你了解到拿破仑的铁汉柔情，丘吉尔的幸福平安之道，泰戈尔的广济博爱的情怀……用最优美的文字，表达最浪漫的情怀，阐明最清澈的心灵。"
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第1卷 第一章
读书的乐趣
佚名
人类世世代代的聪明才智，几百年来愉悦人们的故事，都可以轻松实惠地从书中获得。 不过，读者必须懂得利用知识，进而获得最大收益。世上最不幸的人就是那些从未体会过阅 读佳作所带来的快乐的人。
我对人很感兴趣，对他们个人和发掘他们同样兴趣十足。我所认识的一些卓越的人物只 能到作家的想像中寻找，然后又体现在作家的作品之中，最后变成我的想像。我从书中结识 了新朋友，扩大了社会知识，也学到了新的语言。
如果说我是对人感兴趣，那么其他人的兴趣则是关注怎样而不是谁的问题。书中的人物 可谓丰富多彩，不仅有科幻小说中描写的两万年后的超人，还可以追溯到人类历史的开端。 记录的事情也是千奇百怪，从对福尔摩斯侦探故事的巧妙叙述到科学发现和管教孩子的方法 。
读书是一种思维享受，有点像体育运动。善于读书的人需要强烈的求知欲，丰富的知识 和敏捷的反应。读书之所以是一种乐趣，并不在于作者告诉你什么，而是因为读书使你积极 思考。在作者的引导下，你的想像任意驰骋，甚至超越作者的想像。对比作者的经历，你会 得出自己的结论，也许相同，也许相悖，而随着你对作者思想的理解，你也会变得越来越深 刻。
每一部书都独自存在，犹如独户房子。而图书馆的书籍则像城市中的建筑。尽管它们各 成一体，但却共同构成一个整体。不仅它们之间相互关联，而且也与其他城市相互联系。相 同或相近的看法在不同的地方出现。文学作品中反映的就是人们生活中经常出现的事情，但 在不同时期作者的处理却大相径庭。书籍之间也相互影响，它们传承过去，体现现在，预测 将来，相互联系，代代相传，形同各个家族。不管你从何时读起，都会有一种观点与你相符 。长远来看，你不仅从书中了解世界，体验别人的生活，你也会认识你自己。
只有你诚心读书，阅读才会成为一种乐趣。假如你读的是别人认为“该”读的书，你很 可能觉得索然寡味。假如你放下自己不喜欢的书，另试一本，直到发现自己觉得有意义的书 ，然后心情轻松地读下去，你肯定会感到心情畅快。假如你因阅读而变得更为高尚、聪明、 善良、文雅，读书就不再是一种负担了。
the pleasure of reading
anonymous
all the wisdom of the ages, all the stories that have delighted mankind for centuries, are easily and cheaply available to all of us within the covers of bo oks but we must know how to avail ourselves of this treasure and how to get the most from it. the most unfortunate people in the world are those who have never discovered how satisfying it is to read good books.
i am most interested in people, in them and finding out about them. some of the most remarkable people i've met existed only in a writer's imagination, then on the pages of his book, and then, again, in my imagination. i've found in boo ks new friends, new societies, new words.
if i am interested in people, others are interested not so much in who as i n how. who in the books includes everybody from science fiction superman two hun dred centuries in the future all the way back to the first figures in history. h ow covers everything from the ingenious explanations of sherlock holmes to the d iscoveries of science and ways of teaching mannner to children.
reading is pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a spor t: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness make you a good reader. reading is fun, not because the writer is telling you something, but because it makes your mind work. your own imagination works along with the author's or even goes beyo nd his. your experience, ccpared with his, brings you to the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his.
every book stands by itself, like a onefamily house, but books in a librar y are like houses in a city. although they are separate, together they all add u p to something, they are connected with each other and with other cities. the sa me ideas, or related ones, turn up in different places; the human problems that repeat themselves in life repeat themselves in literature, but with different so lutions according to different writings at different times. books influence each other; they link the past, the present and the future and have their own genera tions, like families. wherever you start reading you connect yourself with one o f the families of ideas, and in the long run, you not only find out about the wo rld and the people in it; you find out about yourself, too.
reading can only be fun if you expect it to be. if you concentrate on books somebody tells you you “ought" to read, you probably won't have fun. but if you put down a book you don't like and try another till you find one that means som ething to you, and then relax with it, you will almost certainly have a good tim e — and if you becce, as a result of reading, better, wiser, kinder, or more g entle, you won't have suffered during the process.
读书乐
约翰.卢伯克
约翰.卢伯克（1834—1913），英国考古学家，生物学家和政治家。出生于伦敦，曾任 下议院议员，提出过数十个议案，包括1871年通过的《银行节假日法》（后来被称为“圣卢 伯克日”）。
书对于人类就如同记忆对于个人一样。书籍记载了民族的历史，人类的发现、世代累积 的知识和经验；书为我们描述自然界的奇迹和美丽，帮我们渡过难关，在我们伤痛时给予安 慰，将疲劳的日子变为快乐短暂的时刻；书知识武装我们的头脑，填满美好而快乐的思想， 然后提升自我，超越自我。
读书时，请不要做皇宫里的国王，最好让自己沉醉在山林海滨，探询美丽奇景，而不必 受疲惫、麻烦和费用巨大之苦。书籍把珍贵无价的祝福撒在身边的小径，我们心情高尚，想 像丰富地穿梭其中，去探寻壮丽『迷』人的地区。
麦考莱拥有财富和名声、地位和权力，然而他在传记里告诉我们，他一生中最快乐的时 光就是与书为伴。在一封写给一个小女孩的『迷』人信件中，他写道：“如果有人能使我做有史 以来最伟大的国王，拥有宫殿、园林、美酒、佳肴、马车、华服和上百名仆从，却以不能读 书为条件，我不会做这个国王。我宁愿做个穷人，住在小阁楼却能饱览群书，而不愿变成不 爱读书的国王。”
the delights of books
john lubbock
books are to mankind what memory is to the individual. they contain the hist ory of our race, the discoveries we have made, the accumulated knowledge and exp erience of ages; they picture for us the marvels and beauties of nature; help us in our difficulties, ccfort us in sorrow and in suffering, change hours of wea riness into moments of delight, store our minds with ideas, fill them with good and happy thoughts, and lift us out of and above ourselves.
when we read we may not only be kings and live in palaces, but, what is far better, we may transport ourselves to the mountains or the seashore, and visit t he most beautiful parts of the earth, without fatigue, inconvenience, expense. p recious and priceless are the blessing, which the books scatter around our daily paths. we walk, in imagination, with the noblest spirits, through the most subl ime and enchanting regions.
macaulay had wealth and fame, rank and power, and yet he tells us in his bio graphy that he owed the happiest hours of his life to books. in a charming lette r to a little girl, he says: “if any one would make me the greatest king that e ver lived, with palaces and gardens and fine dinners,and wines and coaches, and beautiful clothes, and hundreds of servants, on condition that i should not read books, i would not be a king. i would rather be a poor man in garret with plent y of books than a king who did not love reading."
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