There were no children to cook for, so we could just please ourselves.

因为不用给孩子做饭，我们就可以自便了。

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We are not to please ourselves, for Christ pleased not Himself.

我们不可求自己的喜悦，因为基督也不求自己的喜悦。

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We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

我们坚固的人，应当担代不坚固人的软弱，不求自己的喜悦。

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Yet, Rep. Paul wants to take advantage of our youthful desire to please ourselves in the now at the cost of forfeiting the future.

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The precedent would have been set, and anyone else could make the same argument: Please, please, give us another chance, even though we brought this on ourselves.

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As we wait to see whether Mario Draghi and the European Central Bank will tomorrow announce "whatever it takes" to save the euro (to use his resonant phrase of last week), it is worth reminding ourselves of the eurozone's unhealthy lifestyle (forgive my anthropomorphising please).

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