'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。

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.

这种权力感是最高的和最好的乐趣,当它所建立的信念是一个真正的信念,并已通过调查公平地赢得。

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he or she treats a person who can do them absolutely no good.

记住,衡量一个人的真正标准是他或她如何对待一个对他们毫无益处的人。

What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.

外在存在的是一个人的关心;不要让女人出主意;也不可在室内作恶。

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。

A girl unemployed is thinking of mischief.

一个失业的女孩在想恶作剧。