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While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

  • -- Henry David Thoreau 亨利·大卫·梭罗

虽然文明一直在改善我们的住房，但它并没有同样改善住在其中的人。它创造了宫殿，但创造贵族和国王并不容易。

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Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

文明是走向隐私社会的进步。野蛮人的整个存在是公开的，由他的部落的法律统治。文明是人类从人类中解放出来的过程。

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If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

如果你很有天赋，勤勉会使其更加完善;如果你能力一般，勤勉会补足其缺陷。

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Walls, no less than writing, define civilization. They are monuments of resistance against time, like writing itself.

墙壁，和文字一样，定义了文明。它们是抵抗时间的纪念碑，就像写作本身一样。

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No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.

如果你不做自己，没有人会改善你的命运。

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