Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

  • -- Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林

收益可能是暂时的和不确定的;可是,只要你活着,花销总是固定不变的,而且是确定无疑的。建造两个烟囱比把一个装进燃料里要容易得多。

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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

没有什么比带头开创新秩序更困难,更危险,更不确定其成功的了。

We felt that although they were patchy, there was a tremendous political energy in the Henry plays.

我们觉得,尽管亨利的戏剧不完整,但其中蕴含着巨大的政治能量。

Being rejected is not nice, and it never gets any easier no matter where you are in your career.

被拒绝是不好的,而且无论你在职业生涯的哪个阶段,被拒绝都不会变得更容易。

One family builds the wall, two families enjoy it.

一个家庭修墙,两个家庭享受它。

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

未来并不比现在更不确定。

I don't have a particular go to political blog.

我没有特别喜欢政治博客。

Easier to climb up, than to just hang on.

爬上去容易,坚持下去难。