Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

只有人是真诚的。当第二个人出现时,伪善就开始了。我们用赞美、闲言碎语、娱乐和风流韵事来搪塞和阻挡同胞的接近。我们用一百倍的篇幅向他掩饰我们的思想。

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All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

所有的改革者,无论他们的社会良知多么严格,都住在他们能负担得起的最大的房子里。