Ever since civilized man has had a literature he has apparently sought to make selections from it and thus put his favorite passages together in a compact and convenient form.

自从文明人类有了文学以来，他们似乎就一直试图从中摘选，把最喜爱的段落汇编成紧凑便利的形式。

Such familiarity no more makes one a master of literature than a perusal of a dictionary makes the reader a master of style.

这种熟悉并不能使人成为文学大师，正如翻阅字典并不能使人成为风格大师。