A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.

  • -- Charles Dickens 查尔斯·狄更斯

一个不能付款的人得到另一个不能付款的人来保证他能付款。就像一个有两条木腿的人得到另一个有两条木腿的人来保证他有两条天然的腿。这使他们两人都不能进行竞走比赛。

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You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains. Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime.

你和我的身体被赋予了两只手、两条腿和半真半假的大脑。有些人生来就不是这样的。业力在另一个生命中运作。

The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul.

灵魂的自然运动是向上的。但是,正如任何物体被沉重的重量所拖累一样,身体的负担也会拖累灵魂。

If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.

人若说不出话来,不要笑话他,总要可怜他,像可怜断了腿的人一样。

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

财富的物质存在于地球、海洋以及自然和独立的生产中。