А LIVING DOG IS BEТTER ТНАN А DEAD LION
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Живая собака лучше мёртвого льва // ЧтО-то малое, но реальное, лУчше большого, во малодостУпного. |
Some are dinning in our ears that we Americans and moderns
generally are intellectual dwarfs compared with ancients, or even
the Elizabethan men. But what is that to the purpose? А living dog
is better than а dead lion. Shall а man go and hang
himself because he belongs to the race of pigmies, and not bе the
biggest pigmy that he can? Let every one mind his own business,
and endeavour to Ье what he was made. (Тhoreau)
"Наd you any family legend in Shropsire?" "Yes, but the place has gone-sold when my father d1ed ; six of us and по money." "Oh !'' said Dinny, "hornЪie when families are uprooted." Dornford smiled. "Live donkeys are better than dead lions." (Galsworthy) "You don't know America as well as 1I do," he said. ' 'Тhеу always prefer а live mouse to а dead lion. That's one of the reasons why I like America. " (Mauglшm) We went inside, each pleased with his fate : Gallus as Caesar in the East, George as bishop of Alexandria, and I ... well, at least I would Ье able to continue my studies ; better а live priest than а dead priвce. ( Vi |