All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.

  • -- Adelbert von Chamisso 阿德尔贝特·冯·沙米索

这对痴情的父母用尽了一切可能的办法来达成这笔交易;欺骗结束了这些常见的诡计。

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Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

有些人相信父母、导师和亲属所相信的一切。他们继承自己的原则,像保护自己的产业一样保护自己的原则,因为他们是天生的继承人。

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

如果你从来没有被你的孩子恨过,那么你也从来没有做过父母。

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

谁像你自己那样经常欺骗你?

That which covers thee discovers thee.

覆盖你的东西会发现你。