Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.

-- William Cowper 威廉·考珀

人的每一步行动都是理性的，然而他却走错了路，而由本能引导的更卑鄙的东西很少会误入歧途。

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Young as he was, his instinct told him that the best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way - who husbands it too carefully to waste it where it can be dispensed with.

尽管他还年轻，但他的直觉告诉他，最好的说谎者是那些把最小的谎话说得最多的人——那些非常小心地把谎话花在可以扔掉的地方的人。

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When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.

当我想要表现出人们能够做到的那种卑鄙的时候，为了让它可信，我发现我必须把它说得温和一些。在现实生活中，人们总是太过分了。

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Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.

机器人抓不住生命。他们不能。他们没有任何依靠——没有灵魂，没有本能。草比它们更有生存的意志。

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