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To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

  • -- William Hazlitt 威廉·哈兹里特

对于一个优越的种族，作为人类对超凡圣洁和美德的自命不凡，似乎……荒谬。

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The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

强者是弱者的天意。他是瞎子的眼睛，是软弱人的力量，是无防备人的盾牌。他弯下身子，俯视着倒下的人，笔直地站着。他通过举起别人而站起来。

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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

直到正义无视肤色，直到教育无视种族，直到机会不关心人的肤色，解放将只是一种宣言，而不是事实。

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In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.

在每一个商业国家，尽管自命享有平等权利，但少数人的提高必然会使多数人感到沮丧。

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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

没有什么比一个朋友相信他比另一个朋友优越更能加强友谊了。

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Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

虽然野心本身是一种恶习，但它往往也是美德之母。

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The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.

孩子们拥有神奇的智慧。

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In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

在罪恶中我们是美德，反之亦然。

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