"Humility is a huge thing. I remember that during the war there was a slogan plastered everywhere in the underground on the walls: "Everything depends on you or you fall." I guess some excellent psychologist came up with it, but I think it's a dangerous and harmful idea. Because it's not true. It is not true that that particular "everything," say, Mrs. Blanken, who lives in Little-Blank-in-the-Marsh, stands or falls. And if they do believe him, it will have a very bad effect on him. While you are thinking about how you can use yourself in world politics, your child pulls the teapot on himself and scalds himself.
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Agatha ChristieAll Translations
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Humility is a huge thing. I remember that during the war there was a slogan plastered everywhere in the underground on the walls: "Everything depends on you or you fall." I guess some excellent psychologist came up with it, but I think it's a dangerous and harmful idea. Because it's not true. It is not true that that particular "everything," say, Mrs. Blanken, who lives in Little-Blank-in-the-Marsh, stands or falls. And if they do believe him, it will have a very bad effect on him. While you are thinking about how you can use yourself in world politics, your child pulls the teapot on himself and scalds himself.
""Az alázat óriási dolog. Emlékszem, a háború alatt a földalattiban mindenfelé fel volt mázolva a falakra egy jelmondat: "Minden rajtad áll vagy bukik." Gondolom, valami kitűnő pszichológus eszelte ki, de szerintem ez egy veszedelmes és káros gondolat. Merthogy nem igaz. Nem igaz, hogy az a bizonyos "minden", mondjuk, a Little-Blank-in-the-Marshban lakó Mrs. Blanken áll vagy bukik. És ha mégis elhitetik vele, az igen rossz hatással lesz rá. Miközben azon töri majd a fejét, hogyan is hasznosíthatná magát a világpolitikában, a gyereke lerántja magára a teáskannát, és leforrázza magát."