To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man’s character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

-- Mark Twain 马克·吐温

要对一个著名人物的性格作出公正的评价，就必须以他所处时代的标准，而不是以我们这个时代的标准来判断。

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None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.

没有人比年老的罪人更经不起耽搁了。现在是时候了。把握现在。可以说，你的一只脚已经进了坟墓。你的机会很快就会结束。那么，我恳求你，努力从海峡的门进去吧。

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Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient.

因此，比赛不是对速度快的人，而是对所有人的时间和机会，我把对整体的判断留给正直的人，我永远不会对他们的纠正失去耐心。

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