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Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

  • -- Quentin Crisp 昆汀·奎斯普

体面必须是一种比它的反面更令人筋疲力尽的状态来维持。那些成功的人似乎需要充足的睡眠。

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Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

在一切美好的事物中，崇高是至高无上的。成功是所有美好事物的结合。促进是所有正义的一致。坚持不懈是一切行动的基础。

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To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.

事实上，仅仅有好的想法是不够的;它必须在人类中获得成功。要实现这一点，必须遵循不那么纯粹的道路。

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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

在普通的教堂里，它被体面所抑制，被一种想要表现得比我们实际更好的愿望所抑制。

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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

礼仪是所有法律中最不重要的，但它却是最严格遵守的法律。

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Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.

现在我已经六十多岁了，我开始追求体面了。

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Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

不要高估人类的尊严。

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