All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

  • -- Morris West 莫里斯·韦斯特

所有的机构都容易腐败和其成员的恶习。

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Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

与事实的粗暴接触很快就把我的幻想和梦想赶跑了,取而代之的是社会的恐怖、腐败、邪恶和虚伪。

As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process.

作为一名专栏作家,我意识到,不管我揭露了多少腐败,半数读者都会把它挡在门外,尽管他们可能会在这个过程中感到一阵喜悦。