Few rich men own their property; their property owns them.

  • -- Robert G. Ingersoll 格索

很少富人拥有他们的财产;他们的财产拥有他们。

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Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

财产是为生命服务的,无论我们用多少权利和尊重来保护它,它都没有个人的存在。它是人类赖以生存的地球的一部分。它不是人。

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

良好的教养与良好的教养的区别,如果有区别的话,也只是因为它优雅地记住了别人的权利,而不是优雅地坚持自己的权利。

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

动物所处的时代比人类聪明;但是他们的智慧局限于一些细节,而且局限在一个非常狭窄的范围内。

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

除了我自己的困惑,我没有什么可以提供给任何人。

No nice men are good at getting taxis.

没有好人善于叫出租车。

Property is a nuisance.

财产是个累赘。