That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.

  • -- Gamaliel Bailey 甘玛利尔·贝利

我毫不怀疑,这个地方的大多数废奴主义者会优先光顾一家免费的劳工商店;但我们没有在辛辛那提筹集资金。

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To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.

那么,从我自己开始,人们对我的议论就会大不相同,因为在作出判断时,几乎每一个人与其说受到真理的影响,不如说是受到偏爱的影响,而且善恶的报道都是不分国界的。

We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!

我们相信杂货店里的东西,认为它是好的。我们没有学到生命中最宝贵的东西——我们吃进身体的食物。教育你自己!

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

如果我们没有能力放大我们所期望的优势,很少有劳动强度大或风险大的企业会去从事。

My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.

我更喜欢的是,当有人把三脚架放在你面前,顶上放着相机的那一天,不是第一天。

Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.

信念是一件非常奇特的事情:我们倾向于把更多的精力放在我们喜欢的信念上,而不是我们讨厌的事实上。

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

毫无疑问,一个人要努力改善自己的条件,但首先要改善自己。