新殖民地的建立者,无论他们最初可能设想出多么乌托邦的人类美德和幸福,都无一例外地在他们最早的实际需求中认识到,必须分配一部分处女地作为墓地,另一部分作为监狱的所在地。
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
生活是一系列的时刻,而我们有责任使它们有意义。