There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

在文学上还有一个伟大的发现，那就是按文学工作者不写作的数量支付报酬。

-- Thomas Carlyle 托马斯·卡莱尔