If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly.

  • -- Jupiter Hammon 木星哈蒙

如果一个仆人努力取悦他的主人,并且努力学习,我相信很少有主人会残忍地使用这样的仆人。

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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

人民最好的仆人,就像最好的仆人一样,必须在主人耳边低声说出令人不快的事实。国王最不能失去的是宫廷里的傻瓜,而不是愚蠢的朝臣。

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

在大学里培养一个仆人已经够好了。但对一个绅士来说,这种教育有点太迂腐了。