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In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.

  • -- Thomas Robert Malthus 马尔萨斯

因此，在一种极其平等和美德的状态下，在一种纯粹和简单的礼仪占主导地位的情况下，人类的增长显然将远远超过迄今所知的任何增长。

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Manners Hitherto Prevailed Virtue

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Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.

到目前为止，尽管有种种困难和挫折，我还是怀着一种浪漫的激情追求真理。因为人们认为知识对于一个女人来说是不必要的成就，所以很少有人会自找麻烦来帮助我们实现它。

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In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts.

同样地，如果我在没有充分证据的情况下让自己相信任何事情，那么仅仅相信一件事也许并没有什么大的害处;也许这是真的，也许我永远没有机会在外表上表现出来。

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Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

诗歌的优点是能够在一半的时间里说两倍于散文的话，缺点是，如果你没有把全部的注意力放在诗歌上，那么你似乎在两倍的时间里说了一半的话。

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In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed.

在泰国的历史上，不时有不同意见，但总的来说，团结占了上风。

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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

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Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.

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