托马斯·卡莱尔是英国著名历史学家。1834年,他开始动笔撰写《法国革命》,奋战了400多个日日夜夜,总算完成了大部分文稿。卡莱尔对文稿很满意,但也想听听别人的意见,便把自认为最精彩的章节寄给了好友穆勒。哪料三天后,穆勒找上门来,紧张地问:“你寄给我的资料,我还没来得及读,就被女佣当作废纸烧掉了。”卡莱尔顿时傻了眼,瘫倒在椅子上。因为他的写作习惯是,写完一部分便把所有用过的笔记都处理掉,所以那些被烧毁的章节,不仅没了底稿,连资料都没有了。穆勒一再道歉,卡莱尔却 Thomas Carlyle is a famous British historian. In 1834, he began to write “the French Revolution” and fought over 400 days and nights, finally finishing most of the contributions. Carlisle was satisfied with the manuscript, but he also wanted to hear the opinions of others and sent him the best part to friend Mill. After three days, Muller came in and nervously asked: “I did not have time to read the information you sent to me and it was burnt by a maid as a scrap paper.” "Carlyle was stupid at the moment, Collapsed on the chair. Because his writing habit is to finish all the used notes when he finished writing, so those burned chapters not only did not have a script, there was no information at all. Mill repeatedly apologized, Carlisle has