An empty stomach is better than full and grief is better than happiness.

  • -- Irving Stone 欧文·斯通

空着的肚腹,强如饱着;忧愁强如快乐。

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It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power.

监管一切是糟糕的政策……在那里,事情可以更好地自我调节,通过私人努力可以得到更好的促进;但是,不去管那些只能通过干预社会权力来推动的事情,同样是糟糕的政策。

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

这是一本为那些更喜欢它的人消磨时间的书。