"This is much like 'The Hare and the Tortoise', the faster, but not the winner," thought Lizzy, who, though proud, had enough feeling to take a lesson: The quick, proud may have the start, but the quiet, steady may do more in the end.

“这就像是《龟兔赛跑》，跑得更快的不是赢家。”丽兹心里这样想着，她虽然觉得很骄傲，但也感到自己收获了教训：跑得快、骄傲的人也许赢得起点，但安静、稳重的人最终会做得更多。

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If I wanted quiet mornings with less stress and more smiles, and days that were much simpler than before, I had to make a big change.

如果我想我早上安静点，更少压力更多微笑，日子过的比之前的轻松，这样的话我必须做一个大的改变才行。

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One of the outstanding benefits of this personal quiet time is that you are so much more appreciative and compassionate to the people around you.

这份属于个人的宁静最大的优点是它让你对身边的人心怀爱与感激。

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Eleanor Roosevelt, Hillary Clinton - and you look at the Republicans and they take much more of the softer quiet, you know...

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Armstrong "wanted to play the libel laws in the UK and keep me quiet because he had much more money than me, " O'Reilly said.

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But in the New York Times, introvert author Judith Warner argues that a "more quiet argument" would have been much more effective.

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