出自《魏源集·都中吟十三首》。洋人的情况、技术和版图,我都了解得像万里大的手掌中玩米和沙子一样。知己知彼是兵家的策略,一定要知道谁主掌着典属国的职位。
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.