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塞缪尔·斯迈尔斯：自助论·摘录 184
塞缪尔·斯迈尔斯《自助论》· Self-Help · 领导
Those who fail in life are however very apt to assume a tone of injured innocence, and conclude too hastily that everybody excepting themselves has had a hand in their personal misfortunes. An eminent writer lately published a book, in which he described his numerous failures in business, naively admitting, at the same time, that he was ignorant of the multiplication table; and he came to the conclusion that the real cause of his ill-success in life was the money-worshipping spirit of the age. Lamartine also did not hesitate to profess his contempt for arithmetic; but, had it been less, probably we should not have witnessed the unseemly spectacle of the admirers of that distinguished personage engaged in collecting subscriptions for his support in his old age.
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定位：Excerpt 184 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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失败的人很容易摆出无辜受害者的腔调，匆匆断定除了自己，人人都该为他的不幸负责。一位著名作家最近出书，描述自己多次生意失败，同时天真地承认自己不懂乘法表，却得出结论说，他人生不顺的真正原因是这个时代崇拜金钱。拉马丁也毫不掩饰对算术的蔑视；但要是他少蔑视一点，大概我们就不会看到那难堪的一幕：这位名人的崇拜者为他晚年生活募捐。可见，把失败归咎于时代或他人，往往掩盖了自己基本功的缺失。
上下文
斯迈尔斯《自助》批评把失败归咎外因，举作家和拉马丁为例。
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你最近一次失败，是否先检查了自己的基本功？
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