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And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

  • -- Thomas Babington Macaulay 麦考莱

说社会应该由最聪明、最优秀的人的意见来统治，虽然这是真的，但毫无用处。谁的意见决定谁是最聪明和最好的?

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Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

没有什么比多数人容易被少数人控制更令人惊讶的了。

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I didn't want to do just another set of recipes. I think that's useless.

我不想做另一套食谱。我认为那没用。

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Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.

忧虑是对我们无法改变的事情的徒劳的思考。

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Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.

确保你最明智的话是那些你没有说的。

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The human race is governed by its imagination.

人类受想象力的支配。

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The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

公众比最聪明的批评家更聪明。

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