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It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

  • -- Washington Irving 华盛顿欧文

使一个破产的人烦恼的与其说是贫穷，还不如说是矫饰——在骄傲的头脑和空虚的钱包之间挣扎——必须很快结束的空虚的表演。

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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

如果我们仅仅因为野兽不能阻止我们，因为我们在为生存而斗争中支持自己的一方，那么出于同样的原因而把蠢货、罪犯、敌人或资本家斩了，也就合乎逻辑了。

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To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.

帮助穷人获得行动和自由的能力对一个人以及他们自己的健康都是至关重要的:他们必须提供一种必要的礼物，只要他们受到贫困的限制，这种礼物就不能提供。

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The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude.

今天的基本断层线不是不同信仰的人之间的断层线，而是持有这些信仰的人之间的断层线，这些人的信仰带有不确定性，而持有这些信仰的人的信仰带有确定性。

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Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

有时候，你如此努力地用一种方式养活你的家人，却忘了用另一种方式来养活他们，那就是精神食粮。每个人都需要。

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Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

我表现出来的大部分自信，尤其是受到午间酒的影响时，只是一种伪装。

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Unplowed fields make hollow bellies; unread books make hollow minds.

未耕的田地使人肚子瘪;未读的书使人空虚。

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August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

八月，夏季最后一个不幸的信使，是一个空洞的演员。

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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.

人们说我很小气，我不介意他们这么说。

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

思想永远是心灵的补丁。

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Poverty is a great equalizer.

贫穷是一个很好的均衡器。

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