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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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

说谎是一种尊重和崇敬。每当我们对一个人说谎时,我们都会承认他的优越性,以此来表示对他的赞美。

Greed can't again lead the way. We've taken that route before with terrible consequences for this nation and its people.

贪婪不能再次引领潮流。我们以前曾走过这条路,给这个国家和人民带来了可怕的后果。

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.

所有的八卦和疯狂都变成了一种持续的叙述,而这种叙述反过来又可以成为历史。这是可怕的。

Covetous men's chests are rich, not they.

贪婪的人胸中是富有的,而不是他们。