大部分人在二三十岁上就死去了，过了这个年龄，他们只是自己的影子，此后的余生则是在模仿自己中度过，日复一日，更机械，更装腔作势地重复他们在有生之年的所作所为，所思所想，所爱所恨。
Most men die at twenty or thirty; thereafter they are only reflections of themselves: for the rest of their lives they are aping themselves, repeating from day to day more and more mechanically and affectedly what they said and did.