When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

  • -- H. L. Mencken 门肯

当一种新的税收来源被发现时,实际上并不意味着旧的税收来源被抛弃。这仅仅意味着政客们有两种方式榨取纳税人的钱,而以前他们只有一种。

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From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

从我国历史开始,这个国家就饱受妥协之苦。正是通过妥协,人权才被放弃。

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases.

对他来说,人类偏离自然最初所处的状态似乎已证明是一种疾病的大量来源。

It’s not enough to possess her. I want her to abandon herself.

占有她是不够的。我要她放弃自己。

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

我克服了忽视、剥夺、遗弃和虐待。

The only source of knowledge is experience.

知识的唯一来源是经验。

You can't hire someone to practice for you.

你不能雇人帮你练习。

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

艺术永远不会结束,只会被抛弃。

Practice makes permanent.

熟能永久。