If forced to choose between two vices, luxury and sloth, David Hume would have preferred luxury, because to banish it without curing sloth would only diminish industry.

如果被迫在奢侈和懒惰两害中取其一，大卫·休谟会选择奢侈，因为禁止奢侈而不消除懒惰，只会减少勤奋。

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All things are easy to industry, all things difficult to sloth.

勤奋的人事事容易，懒惰的人万事皆难。

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All things are easy to industry, all things difficult to sloth.

勤劳面前万事易，懒散面前万事难。

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Certainly, state interventions that punish industry and frugality and reward sloth and profligacy cannot but facilitate the propagation of misery.

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Many patient advocates, members of Congress and of course, drug- and device-industry reps have chided the agency for its sloth despite all that additional funding.

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