I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.

我现在仍然唯恐错过什么东西，如果我忘记如同我父亲带着优越感所暗示过的，我现在又带着优越感重复的，基本的道德观念是在人出世的时候就分配不均的。