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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

  • -- Thomas Sowell 托马斯·索厄尔

自由已经付出了太多的鲜血和痛苦，不能以廉价的言辞换取自由。

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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

一个作家边写边写，就像他犯了相反的错误一样，应该受到谴责;因为这给他所说的话带来了一种迂腐的效果，同时也使他的话难以理解。

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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

我们从与别人的争吵中提炼出来的，是修辞，而从与自己的争吵中提炼出来的，是诗歌。

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Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

悲伤是一瞬间的痛苦。放纵悲伤是一生的错误。

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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

我们是否建立自由取决于我们自己。

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No man can given anybody his freedom.

没有人能给任何人自由。

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