There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

男人中有一种天生的贵族气质。其根据是美德和才能。

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I write mostly in my office in the shed outside at home, but it can get very cold. I write best on the train, among people. As a writer you spend so much time away from people.

我大部分时间都是在办公室里,在家里外面的小屋里写作,但有时会很冷。在火车上,在人群中,我写得最好。作为一名作家,你花了很多时间远离人群。

I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people.

在牙买加之外的旅行让我更加开放。它帮助我成长为一个不属于我的元素的人;一个人在一个陌生的地方遇见别人。

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

也许,美德只不过是心灵上的礼貌。

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

他在学者中是浪子,在浪子中是学者。

It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.

只有地面活动才能激发黑人的选票。

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

除了已婚人士的工会主义,还有什么美德?