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In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.

  • -- Adam Ferguson 亚当·弗格森

在每一个商业国家，尽管自命享有平等权利，但少数人的提高必然会使多数人感到沮丧。

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It seemed to me that I could write commercial fiction. I wasn't sure whether I could, or whether I wanted to write serious fiction at that point. So I said, 'Let me try something else,' and I wrote a mystery - but I didn't know much about it.

在我看来，我能写商业小说。当时我不确定我是否能，或者我是否想写严肃的小说。所以我说，‘让我试试其他的东西’，然后我写了一个谜——但我对它知之甚少。

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To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

对于一个优越的种族，作为人类对超凡圣洁和美德的自命不凡，似乎……荒谬。

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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

时间就是金钱，尤其是当你和律师交谈或买广告的时候。

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Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.

一切都在变化，包括现状。

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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

如果一个国家只属于一个人，那么它就不是一个国家。

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