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In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.
简而言之,我认识到,人们大部分的悲苦皆由他们对事物的价值做出了错误的估量,并且为他们的哨子付出了太多所导致。