'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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Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.

在过去的三十年里,技术的进步超过了前两千年。进步的指数增长只会继续下去。人类学的评论与琐碎事实相反的是错误的;伟大真理的反面也是正确的。

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。

The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.

写歌是因为你很沮丧,你需要用某种方式来交流,这对我来说不是真的。

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。

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。

Mischief comes soon enough.

祸不单行。