Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.

  • -- Charles Adams 查尔斯·亚当斯

统治者减税并不是为了仁慈。权宜之计和贪婪造成了高税收,通常需要一场迫在眉睫的灾难才能把它降下来。

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I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business.

我以前也有点苦,有点嫉妒,但我能理解。这是生意。

I'm kind of A.D.D., and so my mind wanders a lot.

我有点注意力缺陷多动障碍,所以我的思绪总是漫无目的。

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

贪欲和贪婪比天真更容易上当受骗。

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

贪婪是暮年的恶习。