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All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

  • -- John Quincy Adams 约翰·昆西·亚当斯

只要有可能，所有的人都声称自己是诚实的。相信所有人都诚实是愚蠢的。相信没有这样的人更糟糕。

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People really have to believe in their tax system. They have to believe that there is an equitable distribution of the burden, but there is also an important investment based upon the potential achievements that come from us paying our taxes.

人们必须相信他们的税收制度。他们必须相信，在公平分配负担的同时，还有一项重要的投资，其基础是我们纳税所带来的潜在成就。

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Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean.

他们中有些人自称对哥伦比亚号的所有主要水域都很熟悉，他们向我保证，除了大海，这些水域没有别的联系。

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The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.

所有人在任何意义上都是自由平等的，或在任何时候都是自由平等的，这一学说是完全没有根据的。

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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

如果人生来就是自由的，那么只要他们还保持自由，他们就不会形成任何善恶的概念。

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Folly hath eagle's wings, but the eyes of an owl.

愚昧长着鹰的翅膀，却有猫头鹰的眼睛。

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I believ e that you should move and eat right.

我相信你应该正确地运动和饮食。

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A gowk at Yule'll no be bright at Beltane.

在圣诞节痛饮一顿，在贝尔坦就不会有好心情了。

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