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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

  • -- Alexander Pope 亚历山大·波普

她觉得美德是一种太痛苦的努力，满足于永远保持体面。

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Listen, I wish economic growth only went in one direction. It doesn't. There are economic downturns. They're painful, they're harmful, and they hurt families.

听着，我希望经济增长只有一个方向。它不是。经济出现了衰退。它们是痛苦的，有害的，会伤害到家庭。

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When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.

当所有的事情都说了，做了，任何社区真正的力量堡垒是在那些居住在那里的人的心里，思想和愿望。

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

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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Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.

虽然高山可以引导迁徙，但平原是人类居住最多的地区。

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I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.

当和平不是以基本的体面为代价买来的时候，我珍视它。

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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

失败就像擦破了皮的膝盖，痛苦但肤浅。

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Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

谦虚是一种被严重高估的美德。

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