Have you ever been around someone who immediately put you at ease? Perhaps you may be one of those people who others feel safe around. 有没有遇到过那么个人,只要他/她在你身边,你立即就觉得安心?或许你就是让别人觉得

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双语美文阅读 Think of how stingy you are with your money: if someone on the street asks for $10, you're not giving it to them. There's no way you're giving a 30% tip for a normal dining experience. And so on. 想想你在花钱上是多么的吝啬

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There are advantages and disadvantages to coming from a large family. Make that a large family with a single parent, and they double. The disadvantages are never so apparent as when someone wants to go off to college. Parents have cashed in life insu

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Never stop BELIEVING because MIRACLES happen everyday! 永远不要停止相信,因为奇迹每天都会发生! Around six months after our son Todd's death, our younger son Brandon (then almost three) began stuttering. Brandon and I went for a wal

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I was on vacation in Hawaii with my family. We were at the beach all day and at some point I took off my ring I got as a gift from my mom for graduation (beautiful, gold, inscribed, full of sentimental value) and placed it in the cup holder of a fold

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It is Valentines Day, and many of you must be thinking whether the guy you are dating is the one. 今天是情人节,你们中的许多人肯定在想:我现在约会的对象是我要找的那个人吗? Well, Chinese women seem to have identifie

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The love of beauty is an essential part of all healthy human nature. It is a moral quality. The absence of it is not an assured ground of condemnation, but the presence of it is an invariable sign of goodness of heart. In proportion to the degree in

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The 92-year-old,petite,well-poised and proud lady,who is fully dressed each morning by eight oclock,with her hair fashionably coifed and makeup perfectly applied,even though she was legally blind,moved to a nursing home today. 这位92岁高龄、个子

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I grew up in a small town where the elementary school was a ten-minute walk from my house and in an age, not so long ago, when children could go home for lunch and find their mothers waiting. 我在一个小镇上长大,在那儿,从我家步行到

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I am a kind word uttered and repeated By the voice of Nature; I am a star fallen from the Blue tent upon the green carpet. I am the daughter of the elements With whom Winter conceived; To whom Spring gave birth; I was Reared in the lap of Summer and

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You went to the butchers for meat, the pharmacy for aspirin, and the grocery store for food. But when I spent the summer with my Grandmother in Warwick, N.Y., she sent me down to the general store with a list. How could I hope to find anything on the

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You want to know the secret to success? Here it is: 你想知道成功的秘诀吗?下面我就告诉你: Believe in yourself so much, that no one else can tell you otherwise. 要足够相信自己,这样就没有人能对你指手画脚了。

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It was many years ago. I was a young dad sitting on the couch reading a fairy tale to my little girl. She sat next to me with her head on my arm as I told the tale. When it came to the end I finished with those famous words: And they lived happily ev

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小编导读:是什么让作家成为作家?这个问题听起来好像挺绕的不过,成为作家的一个原因大概就是被那种主宰故事发展的力量所吸引吧!其实我们的人生何尝不是这样?我们总有主宰它的力量~

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Imagine you are carrying around a faux Prada bag you bought for six dollars. It looks real. It feels real. But how long can you keep convincing yourself that it is? 想象一下你背着六美元淘来的山寨普拉达四处奔走的场景。它看起

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Just for today I will try to live through this day only and not solve my whole life problem at once. I can do something for twelve hours that would appall me if I had to keep it up for a lifetime. 就为了今天,我将尽力只度过今天而不立刻

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A Simple Hello 简单的一句问候 I have always felt sympathy and compassion for the kids I see at school walking all alone, for the ones that sit in the back of the room while everyone snickers and makes fun of them. But I never did anything abou

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Aunt Dolly's Hat 多莉姨妈的帽子 Three things I was sure of as a child: My family loved me. The sun would come up tomorrow. I had a wonderful voice.I figured that was unquestionably true because I participated at the top of my lungs in all the

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How to fuck up your entire day(or life)in 5 simple steps五个会让你虚度人生的简单步骤: Step1.Grab your dumb phone as soon as you wake up,before stretching and having a tall glass of water,and start looking at all the shit everyone else

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The significant inscription found on an old key---If I rest, I rust---would be an excellent motto for those who are afflicted with the slightest bit of idleness. Even the most industrious person might adopt it with advantage to serve as a reminder th

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