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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

如果一个国家期望无知和自由，在文明的状态下，它期望的是过去和将来都不会发生的事情。

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Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

不必要的财产是不必要的负担。如果你有它们，你必须照顾它们!简单的生活有很大的自由。最幸福的人是那些拥有足够但不太多的人。

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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

如果你写的是体裁小说，你就得遵守规则，而且你必须遵守规则，因为读者是这样期望的。

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Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.

很少有人敢否认节制在提高一个处于战争状态的国家的效率方面的好处。

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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

想要收获自由之果的人，必须象人一样，承受维护自由的劳苦。

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A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

报纸是一种让无知的人变得更无知，让疯狂的人变得更疯狂的工具。

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It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.

没有上帝和圣经，就不可能正确地治理一个国家。

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Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

文明是无法忍受的，但在上层社会就没那么难以忍受了。

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This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

这是奴隶制，更不用说思想了。

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When humor goes, there goes civilization.

幽默消失了，文明也就消失了。

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