Avarice is the vice of declining years.

-- George Bancroft 班克罗夫特

贪婪是暮年的恶习。

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The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. . . . The ordinary objects of human endeavour -- property, outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible.

有些理想曾为我们引过道路，并不断给我新的勇气以欣然面对人生，那些理想就是真、善和美……在我看来，人类奋斗的普通目标——财产、表面上的成功、奢侈——总是可鄙的。

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Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.

即使整个大地和大海都变成金子，也无法满足一个女人的贪婪……用指甲刮钻石比用人类的聪明才智让一个女人同意捐出她的积蓄要容易得多。

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Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!

无情、贪婪、暴虐、声名狼藉，他们有一个原则值得所有其他的原则，那就是快乐的原则!

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

老年本身就有足够的畸形。这决不应该给他们增添罪恶的丑恶。

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Gold and silver are mingled with dirt, till avarice parted them.

金银混在泥土里，直到贪婪把它们分开。

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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to vice.

快乐是罪恶的最大诱因。

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