Your reputation is your most important currency—protect it fiercely.
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.
世界可能很刻薄，但人们不必如此。
故事中最重要的不是发生了什么，而是为什么会发生。