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Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

  • -- Walter Savage Landor 兰德

真理就像罂粟花的汁液，只要少量，就能使人平静;在更大的范围内，它们会被加热和刺激，并伴有过量的致命后果。

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It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of profit, rent, and wages, but by the quantity of labour required to obtain that produce.

我们不能正确地判断利润、租金和工资的比率，不是根据这两类人所获得的绝对生产数量，而是根据获得这些生产所需的劳动力数量。

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Men build bridges and throw railroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don’t have to sew buttons.

人们在沙漠中修桥、修铁路，然而他们成功地争辩说，缝钮扣的工作超出了他们的能力范围。因此，他们不需要缝扣子。

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Let's take a timeout. Let's allow investors the opportunity in a period of market calm to re-examine what's happened and to deploy new strategies into the marketplace.

让我们休息一下。让我们让投资者有机会在市场平静时期重新审视发生了什么，并在市场中部署新的策略。

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I've discovered that sheer quantity doesn't necessarily make for a heavier sound; if anything, overdubs make guitars sound mushier.

我发现纯粹的数量并不一定会产生更重的声音;如果有的话，配音过多会使吉他听起来更混音。

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The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.

富足的人之所以适度，是因为他们的好运气使他们心平气和、沉着冷静。

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If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

人若失了对生命中任何部分的敬畏，就失了对整个生命的敬畏。

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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.

他们把我说成的这个人也把我烦死了。

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