If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

-- W. Somerset Maugham 威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆

如果一个国家把自由看得比任何东西都重要，那么它就会失去自由，而具有讽刺意味的是，如果它更看重舒适或金钱，那么它也会失去自由。

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On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration.

相反，全世界都将指出，这个国家违反了一项条约，与他们曾经约定要进行仲裁的国家发生战争。

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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

如果一个国家期望无知和自由，在文明的状态下，它期望的是过去和将来都不会发生的事情。

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Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

反讽把每一个简单的事实都看作是一种挑战。

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Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

讽刺是心灵的卫生。

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