It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business should always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut.

  • -- Philip Dormer 菲利普·多默

发现欺诈和察觉愚蠢总是正确的;但是,揭露这两种情况往往都是错误的。做生意的人应该时刻睁大眼睛,但又必须常常闭上眼睛。

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My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

我的国家为我安排了一个最微不足道的职位,这个职位是人类的发明或想象力所构想出来的。

What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.

什么是对的,什么是错的,谁又能说呢?我认为很少有东西是正确的。

I thought, If I'm so afraid of a bikini, there's something wrong. And so I had to get back into one!

我想,如果我这么害怕比基尼,一定是出了什么问题。所以我必须回到一个!

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

如果一个人为自己的财富感到骄傲,那么在人们知道他如何使用财富之前,不应该表扬他。