Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

  • -- Thomas Mann 托马斯·曼

体面意味着富有,体面意味着贫穷。如果我听到我的家人被称为正派人,我会死的。

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All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

所有这些都是关于平等的。人们唯一真正的共同点是他们都将死去。

I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.

我是个挥金如土的人,但我很小心,因为我的家庭并不富裕。

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

宁愿站着死,也不要跪着活。

He who is contented is rich.

知足者富。