Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.

  • -- Caleb Cushing 卡莱布库欣

我怀着这些见解,请各位先生们,像我刚才那样,冷静地回顾事实和原则,来看待这个问题。

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A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

适度好的东西并不如它应该的那么好。适度的性情总是一种美德;但是原则上适度总是一种恶习。

And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

我一直坚持这样一个原则,如果我对它有足够的兴趣来写它,那么它一定会引起很多人的兴趣。

The value of an opinion is only measured by its user. It's ironic that the value of a fact is only measured by its observer.

意见的价值只能由它的使用者来衡量。具有讽刺意味的是,事实的价值只能由观察者来衡量。

Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.

观察事物的本质。找出你的观点的根据,赞成和反对。