I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.

  • -- George Mason IV 乔治梅森四世

我退出了公共事务,因为我深信我没有能力做任何好事,我对那些在我看来与共同政策和正义不一致的措施深恶痛绝。

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I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

我坚信,当我走到最后,我想要为我做过的事而后悔,而不是为我没有做过的事而后悔。

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.

给一只猫洗澡需要蛮力、毅力、信念的勇气——还有一只猫。最后一种成分通常最难获得。