You can compel obedience, but not affection.

可以逼人服从，却无法逼人生爱。

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But there are many other passions which we share in common with the brutes, such as resentment, natural affection, even gratitude, which do not, upon that account, appear to be so brutal.

但是有些我们与野兽共有的激情，例如有些愤怒，自然的情感，甚至感激，却因此而看上去不是那么野蛮。

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You understand, one conceives an affection for a person; I am a good sort of a beast, I am; I do not reason; I love that little girl; my wife is quick-tempered, but she loves her also.

您懂吗，彼此有了感情，我是一个烂好人，我；道理我说不清，我爱她，这孩子；我女人性子躁，可是她也爱她。

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Distance is not bridged, but neither is affection strained.

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