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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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。

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

人类制造了许多复杂而狡猾的机器,但它们中哪一个能真正与人类心脏的工作相匹敌呢?

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

如果你有一万个规章制度,你就破坏了所有对法律的尊重。

No man loves the bearer of bad tidings.

没有人爱带来坏消息的人。