Congressmen from both North and South already had made decisions that could not, and would not,be changed easily.

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If i would go back in time and give myself one piece of advice as undergradute, it would be take pride in your decisions and hardwork, but not in your gifts.

如果时光倒流,我能为本科时期的我,提个建议的话,我会说，为自己作出的决定和勤奋工作，而不是自己的天赋感到骄傲。

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A bourgeois or a burgher was somebody who lived in a city and assumed that some of the justice that was levied against him or her would be the result of decisions taken locally.

布尔乔亚"意指住在城市里的居民,在他们看来依法纳税,是地方决策者强加于他们的

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