He maintains further the titles of nobility are of value only for the benefits they confer on those of lesser rank or they're not useful at all.

对于贵族头衔,他认为只有在依据头衔划分利益时,它才具有真实的价值,否则再高的头衔也是一无是处。

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For a driver, for instance, when I ask you to rank how good you are as a driver, what people often do is they think--they say, "I'm better than average," but what they do is they focus on one aspect of their driving.

例如，拿司机来说，当我叫人们给自己的开车技术打个分时，人们通常会认为，“我比一般人好”,但其实他们只看到了开车的一个方面。

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