Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

  • -- Lin Yutang 林玉堂

社会的存在只能建立在一定程度的精心设计的谎言的基础上,没有人确切地说出他的想法。

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We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now.

我们在社会交往中变得更加随意,更加放松,那时有一种正式的礼节,也许还有一种现在不存在的尊重。

The family has a social function and so it should be sustained.

家庭具有社会功能,因此它应该得到维持。