He said, "I'll pray for him but if he can punch it'll help." In a small respect, that's Machiavelli.

神父说，我将为他祈祷，但是如果他能出拳猛击,那将会很有帮助，小面上说，这就是马基雅维利。

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You could look at a similar attitude in "A Prayer for My Daughter," another important big Yeats poem from slightly earlier, where Yeats says, "An intellectual hatred is the worst, so "that opinions are accursed."

在为我的女儿祈祷中,叶芝表达了相似的态度,这首诗稍早，也很重要，叶芝在诗里说，理智的仇恨为害最甚,把观念视为可憎“

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