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It’s difficult to turn from the promise of retribution. Even if it’s the barest promise.

  • -- Sarah MacLean 萨拉·麦克莱恩

要放弃惩罚的承诺是很困难的。即使是最简单的承诺。

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We were not fathers also to convey the promise, as Abraham was; nor although the promise, as collectively taken, had belonged to us, as to Abraham it did.

我们原不是亚伯拉罕的祖宗，也不是要传这应许的。这应许本是属于我们的，却不像亚伯拉罕的。

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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

在我看来，最不给人希望的孩子是那种批判性的能力比想象力发展得更快的孩子。

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