If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

  • -- Jimmy Carter 吉米卡特

如果你害怕让任何人发疯,那么你最终会探索人类成就的最低公分母。

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It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility.

值得怀疑的是,人类是否最感激那些像培根和巴特勒那样从文学宝库中挖掘黄金的人,还是最感激那些像佩利那样净化它、盖章、确定它的真正价值并赋予它货币和效用的人。

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

把人类想得不好而不希望他们受到伤害,这也许是最高的智慧和美德。