The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
孩子完全接受——甚至渴望——家规。「在我们家,我们对 X 有一个规矩」是家长设立家庭规范时所需的唯一理由。事实上,「我对 X 有一个规矩」是你给自己设定规范所需的唯一理由。
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 future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.