A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

  • -- H. L. Mencken 门肯

教堂是从未去过天堂的绅士们向从未去过天堂的人夸耀的地方。

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Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences.

先生们,我热切地相信,仲裁原则不久就会赢得这样的信心,使其有理由扩展到更广泛的国际分歧领域。

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

让人们对着墙哭泣,或对着麦加,或去教堂的,是一种对纯洁的感觉的追寻。

Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.

显然,接受教会为绝对正确的向导的人会相信教会所教导的一切。

Gentlemen never wear brown in London.

伦敦的绅士从不穿棕色衣服。