Back in the firsthalf of the 1800s this guy Henry George Liddell picked up a pet project with afriend of his, Robert Scott.

追溯回19世纪前半页吧，这位名叫亨利·乔治·里德尔的伙子和他的朋友罗伯特斯考特搞了一个足以让他俩引以为豪的工程。

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"From that day," continued Mr. Prentice, "there was no boy in the school who learned more rapidly than Henry. From that day till the present hour he has been a student; and he now urges his son George to 'try again' as he tried."

“从那天起，”普伦蒂塞先生继续说，“学校里没有一个男孩比亨利学得更快。从那天起，直到现在，他还在学；现在他敦促他的儿子乔治像他那样‘再试一次’。”

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But, she added, "Can you any longer read Henry James or George Eliot?"

但是，她又说：“你现在还能读亨利·詹姆斯或乔治·艾略特的书吗？”

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Mr.Obama discussed nuclear non-proliferation in the Oval Office Tuesday with former secretaries of state George Shultz and Henry Kissinger, as well as former Defense Secretary William Perry and Sam Nunn, former chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

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The spreading of these works is a really deserving cause, for our generation especially has many and important things to learn from Henry George.

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Earlier generations understood this very well: Monopoly, the board game, was for example first developed as a game which explored and explained the economics of Henry George.

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