Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.

  • -- Sarah Fielding 莎拉·菲尔丁

正是这种把一切事物都屈从于我们自己目的的欲望,使它们变得混乱,是我们生活中每一个错误的主要根源。

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If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it."

如果你想把一个人对你所能倾注的最大的轻蔑和仇恨之杯全部吸干,让一位年轻的母亲听到你叫她亲爱的宝贝“它”吧。

First deserve, and then desire.

首先是应得,然后是欲望。