There is only so much of fortune a man really neads and the rest is just for showing off.

一个人真正需要的财富就那么一点点，其余的都是用来炫耀的，正应了中国的古话:纵有广厦千间，夜眠三尺之地。

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Jefferson once wrote, "There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him."

杰弗逊曾经写道：“每个人都有为国效劳的义务，这一义务与自然和命运给他的馈赠成正比。”

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FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA, who turned 70 last month, says that "Tetro" is the kind of film he set out to make as a young man, before fame and fortune sidetracked him.

上个月刚过完70岁生日的弗朗西斯·福特·科波拉说：《泰特罗》是他还年轻时就开始计划要拍的一部影片，当时他还没有名气、运气也没降临到他身上。

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His main target was Sergei Lisovsky, a 36-year-old advertising man who made his first fortune from a chain of Moscow discotheques.

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To many this would have been proof of his good fortune, for a man blessed with two hundred and four family members was a rich man indeed, but abundance gave the ascetically inclined Senior a permanent low-level headache.

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