I was so fortunate as to have friends in most of the ranks of the social order; there is nothing so unfortunate, to my mind, as a specialized circle, wherein a certain round of ideas is continually traversed and retraversed.

我很幸运，在大多数社会阶层中都有朋友；在我看来，没有什么比一个专门的圈子更不幸的了，在这个圈子里，某一轮的想法不断地被遍历和重新遍历。