There is no more violent prodigal than the avaricious man who takes the bit in his teeth; there is no man more terrible in action than a dreamer.

一个吝啬的人在发狂时可以千金一掷，在所不惜，但也没有比一个冥想者行动起来更可怕的了。

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“Why, aren't we all aware, you'll never see a swallow in the air till spring insight! So now,”thinks prodigal,“my fur is useless quite. Why wrap oneself in furs?

“谁不知道只有到了春天,天空才会出现燕子呢,”浪子想，“所以，现在我的皮大衣没用了，为何还要紧裹着它呢？

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And I resolv'd that I would, like a true repenting Prodigal, go home to my Father.

我决心，我要像一个真正回头的浪子，回到家里，回到我父亲的身边。

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But from the driver's seat of our minivan, I had the definite feeling that Amherst would never be my town again, that the town itself wouldn't stand for it, that they didn't need a prodigal son, that a prodigal son was exactly what they didn't need.

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It was not a prodigal's return to neoconservatism, from one simplicity to another.

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And if Dan makes a real business out of these guitars, he might even shake off a reputation as a prodigal son.

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