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The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

  • -- Thomas Babington Macaulay 麦考莱

清教徒憎恨熊的引诱，不是因为它给熊带来痛苦，而是因为它给观众带来快乐。

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Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

爱在于付出而不求回报;给予别人不欠别人的，别人也不欠你的。这就是为什么真爱从来就不是建立在公平交换的基础上的，就像功利或快乐的联想一样。

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Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice.

就像我不能为自己哭泣，所以我会让这首歌带走我内心所有的东西，我不能让任何人看到，并把它奉献出来，就像这声音是某种上帝，而我的痛苦是某种牺牲。

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We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.

我们必须把自己叫醒!不然，总有别人来代替我们，背起我们的十字架，夺去我们的冠冕。

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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

许多人以为他是在买快乐，其实他是在把自己卖给快乐。

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The water that bears the ship is the same that engulfs it.

载着船的水和吞没船的水是一样的。

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The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.

士兵伤口的历史掩盖了伤口的痛苦。

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