How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

  • -- Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林

很少有人有足够的勇气承认自己的错误,或有足够的决心改正它们。

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These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would basically serve just a few of the very wealthiest families in those countries.

这些是大的。然后这些公司就会进入并建立一个电力系统或港口或高速公路,这些基本上只服务于这些国家中少数最富有的家庭。

Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

当你醒着的时候,想想自己的错误,当你睡着的时候,想想别人的错误。

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

成功意味着要有勇气、决心和意志成为你认为自己命中注定的那个人。

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

只有当罪恶发展到无法避免的地步时,人们才会下定决心避免罪恶。

We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough.

我们不饿……为什么把这种食物强加给我们?我们不想窒息。我们有足够的。

If they aren't real enough to surprise me, then they aren't real enough to go on the page.

如果它们不够真实,不足以让我感到惊讶,那么它们也不够真实,不足以让我动笔。

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

我们承认自己的小错误是为了让人们相信我们没有大错误。

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

所有的成年人都曾经是孩子……但只有少数人记得。

A courageous foe is better than a cowardly friend.

勇敢的敌人胜过怯懦的朋友。