Is it nothing to you that those things happen?" "They must happen." "No. They happen because there are no kings but pitiful kings. They happen because the kings love their Amandas and do not care." "But what can YOU do, Cheetah?" "Very little. But I can give my life and all my strength. I can give all I can give." "But how? How can you help it--help things like that massacre?" "I can do my utmost to find out what is wrong with my world and rule it and set it right." "YOU! Alone." "Other men do as much. Every one who does so helps others to do so.英文原著 · 《The Research Magnificent》
Any one, or more than one, of these contingencies were more likely to happen than not. But nothing did happen, save - the best. Not a thought of the kind ever crossed my mind, either at the time or afterwards. Yet I was not a thoughtless man, only an average man. Nine Englishmen out of ten with a love of sport - as most Englishmen are - would have done, and have felt, just as I did. I was bruised and still; but so one is after a run with hounds. I had had many a nastier fall hunting in Derbyshire. The worst that could happen did not happen; but the worst never - well, so rarely does.英文原著 · 《Tracks of a Rolling Stone》
"Do listen, then: experience teaches us that luck has its laws; and I build my system on one of them. If two opposite accidents are sure to happen equally often in a total of fifty times, people, who have not observed, expect them to happen turn about, and bet accordingly. But they don't happen turn about; they make short runs, and sometimes long ones. They positively avoid alternation. Have you not observed this at _trente et quarante?"_英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
This seems to be the true explanation why forbearance to sue upon a claim believed the plaintiff to be good is a sufficient consideration, although the claim was bad in fact, and known by the defendant to be bad. /1/ Were this view unsound, it is hard to see how wagers on any future event, except a miracle, could be sustained. For if the happening or not happening of the event is subject to the law of causation, the only uncertainty about it is in our foresight, not in its happening.英文原著 · 《The Common Law》
for I could not rest ... I wanted to know what had happened."
"What had happened? I don't understand."
"What happened between Citizen Chauvelin and your husband?" asked Candeille. "What is that to you?" replied Marguerite haughtily. "I pray you do not misunderstand me ..." pleaded Candeille eagerly. "I know my presence in your house ... the quarrel which I provoked must have filled your heart with hatred and suspicion towards me ... but oh!英文原著 · 《The Elusive Pimpernel》