Even more important than what we do, then, is who we are.

  • -- James Green Somerville 詹姆斯·格林·萨默维尔

比我们做什么更重要的是我们是谁。

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Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

乍一看,似乎没有什么比人类行为的外在形式更不重要的了,然而,没有什么比这更值得人们重视的了:除了生活在一个没有自己礼仪的社会里,人们对一切都习以为常了。

The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

当代保守主义在所有重要问题上都保持沉默,这显示出它在智力上的无能。