The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
世界上充满了显而易见的事物,但人们却往往视而不见。
城市是各种力量碰撞的战场,而建筑是这些冲突的调解者。
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.