To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

  • -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton 伊丽莎白·凯迪·斯坦顿

制定人们不能也不愿遵守的法律,只会使所有的法律受到蔑视。

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But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.

你也可以这样,当你催促一个背着沉重货物上山的人,你的鞭子也在他背上的时候,告诉他,这与货物和鞭子都没有关系。

Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.

每个人生来就是为了做一些独特的事情,如果他或她不做,就永远不会做。

Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.

毫无疑问,这是穿衣品味的最简单法则之一,那就是它不会引起穿者对穿者的过分关注。

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

礼仪是所有法律中最不重要的,但它却是最严格遵守的法律。