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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

  • -- Alexander Pope 亚历山大·波普

你的忠告仍然是真的，这还不够;直率的事实比善意的谎言更有害。

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The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.

这就是新闻界的雇工，他们的工作就是鼓舞人民的精神。他们说了那么长时间的谎话，耍了那么多花招，最后他们的预算似乎是完全空了。

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There's so much stuff said about me that's not true, so now if something is hurtful and wrong, I send an e-mail or letter immediately, saying, This is not true.

很多关于我的事情都是假的，所以现在如果有什么事情是伤害性的，或者是错误的，我马上发一封电子邮件或者一封信，说，这不是真的。

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True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

真正的慈善是希望对他人有用而不考虑回报。

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There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

聪明人很少知道他们所做的一切坏事。

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I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.

坦率地说，我想我不太喜欢政界人士。

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