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给年轻人的忠告 荷叶/译 孩子，要记住，你需要工作。无论你手握锄头还是钢笔，手推车还是一叠图书，在挖沟还是编辑论文，在敲击拍卖会的小槌还是在写一些有趣的书，你必须工作。环视周围，你会发现最有能力不工作而安享余生的人，是那些工作最卖力气的人。不要害怕因过劳而死。在阳光灿烂的三十岁芳龄，那是不可能发生的事。有些人会英年早逝，但不是因为他们傍晚六点才结束工作，而是因为他们凌晨两点才回家。孩子，累死他们的是工间休闲。工作让你吃得香，睡得实，给你一个完美的假日，并使你对此充满感激之情。 有些年轻人不去工作，但世界并不以他们为荣。世人不知道他们的名字，甚至仅仅呼之为某某的儿子。没有人喜欢他们，这个广大繁忙的世界不知道他们的存在。因此，找出你想做的事情，甩开膀子，大干一场吧。你越繁忙，你将陷入的伤害会越少，你的睡眠会越香，你会越有希望开心地去度假，世人也会对你越满意。 附：原文 Remember, my son, you have to work. Whether you handle a pick or a pen, a wheel-barrow or a set of books, digging ditches or editing a paper, ringing an auction bell or writing funny things, you must work. If you look around you will see the men who are the most able to live the rest of their days without work are the men who work the hardest. Don't be afraid of killing yourself with overwork. It is beyond your power to do that on the sunny side of thirty. They die sometimes, but it is because they quit work at six in the evening, and do not go home until two in the morning. It's the interval that kills, my son. The work gives you an appetite for your meals; it lends solidity to your slumber, it gives you a perfect and grateful appreciation of a holiday. There are young men who do not work, but the world is not proud of them. It does not know their names, even it simply speaks of them as "old So-and-So's boy". Nobody likes them; the great, busy world doesn't know that they are there. So find out what you want to be and do, and take off your coat and make a dust in the world. The busier you are, the less harm you will be apt to get into, the sweeter will be your sleep, the brighter and happier your holidays, and the better satisfied will the world be with you. | 
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