In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.

-- William Godwin 威廉·葛德文

在某些情况下，每件事都是可以理解的，可以衡量的，可以简化为规则，爱是不可能的。

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No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.

如果不了解地球上的植被，就不可能真正了解世界的任何一部分，因为这不仅决定了动物居民的性质，而且也决定了大多数人的职业。

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Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.

一般来说，黑人银行之所以倒闭，是因为人们被教育说，他们自己的商业先驱不能在这个领域发挥作用，于是取出了存款。

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My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.

我的理智的确控制着我的感情，但不管它有什么权威，它对感情与其说是统治不如说是专制。

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I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.

我从来不理解没有书架的人。

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