Solitude - Society is commonly too cheap.

Society is commonly too cheap.

 

We meet at very short intervals,

not having had time to acquire any new value for each other.

at short intervals  빈번히

acquire (노력, 능력으로)습득하다, 획득하다

 

We meet at meals three times a day,

and give each other

a new taste of that musty old cheese that we are.

musty 퀴퀴한 냄새가 나는 

We have had to agree on a certain set of rules,

called etiquette and politeness,

to make this frequent meeting tolerable

and that we need not come to open war.

tolerable (썩 좋지는 않지만)괜찮은; 참을 수 있는 

We meet at the post office,

and at the sociable, and at the fireside every night;

sociable 사교적인 

we live thick and are in each other's way,

and stumble over one another,

and I think that we thus lose some respect for one another.

thick 두꺼운, 빽빽한

stumble over 발이 걸리다, 발을 헛디디다

 

Certainly less frequency

would suffice for all important and hearty communications.

suffice 충분하다