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There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.

  • -- Thomas Babington Macaulay 麦考莱

说社会上的某一部分人也许完全有能力保护其他人的人身和财产，但又完全不适合指导我们的意见，或监督我们的私人习惯，这当然并不矛盾。

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People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.

人们试图一次改变太多，结果变得势不可挡，他们最终放弃了这个计划。因此，慢慢地改掉坏习惯比一次性改掉要重要得多。

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The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.

表达的习惯导致对要表达的东西的寻找。如果我们把这句话里的每一个平凡之处都剔除掉，那么，事物就仍然是平凡本身的残余。

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We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

我们有一个以市场为导向的社会，如此痴迷于买卖，痴迷于权力、快乐和财产。

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By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

通过欣赏，我们使别人的优点成为我们自己的财产。

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