The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

  • -- Chester A. Arthur 切斯特·艾伦·阿瑟

公共资金的奢侈支出是一种罪恶,不能用这些钱对纳税人的价值来衡量。

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We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.

我们要求人们对我们所拥有的照片保持真实,不管这些照片有多么令人反感:我们更喜欢真实的照片,而不是添加了一些无法融入其中的细节。

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

真正的笑的一个奇妙之处在于它摧毁了任何一种分裂人类的系统。

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.

我们都有私人病痛。麻烦制造者是那些需要公共治疗其私人疾患的人。

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

我最喜欢的是孩子们的来访。他们不想当公职。