Is this owing to the generosity of him in whose possession it is found, or to the remissness of the officers of justice?

这是由于占有者的慷慨呢，还是由于持正义者的疏忽呢？

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The less his power, the more safely obscure and unnoticed does he feel his position to be, and the more readily does he relapse into remissness.

而他的权力越小，他就会感到他的职位无疑是既模糊又不引人注意的，他就越容易堕落到不负责任的状态之中去。

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