If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

如果你现在什么都不想做，只想受人尊敬，那么最好的借口就是做一些深奥的研究。

-- Leslie Stephen 莱斯利·斯蒂芬