They also tell where a person's parents were born.

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You are born to be one of these people because your father was such a person belonging to the right families and so on.

你生来就是这些人中的一员,因为你父亲就是某个有权有势的家族的人,诸如此类

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So, even if we were to agree with the pessimists that it would be better never to have been born at all, as the old joke goes, show me one person in a thousand who's so lucky, right?

所以，即使我们要同意悲观主义者的观点,根本不出生更好，就像老笑话讲的那样，给我千里挑一找到一个走运的人？

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