Or if I decided to become an artist or a scholar or a beach bum or a farmer, how much better off or worse off would I have been?

如果我决定成为一名艺术家或学者,一个流浪汉或一个农夫，我会更幸福还是更不幸？

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Most of us don't know enough to know with a high degree of accuracy how things would have gone had I decided to become a farmer instead of a philosopher.

多数人了解得都不够,无法更确切地知道,如果我成为农夫而非哲学家,到底会有怎样的人生。

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