Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing; character, conduct, and capacity are everything. Instead of all the workers being leveled down to low wage standards and all the rich leveled up to fashionbale income standards, everybody under a system of equal incomes would find his or her own natural level. There would be great people and ordinary people and little peolpe, but the great would always be those who had done great things, and never the idiot whose mother had spoiled them and whose father had left a hunred thousand a year; and the little would be persons of small minds and mean characters, and not poor persons who had never had a chance. That is why idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.
相关单词：merit
merit解释：n.优点，价值，功绩，成绩；vt.值得
merit例句：
There is great merit in dealing fairly with your employees.公正地对待你的雇员有极大好处。
History affords us lessons that merit attention.历史给我们提供了值得注意的借鉴。
相关单词：capacity
capacity解释：n.能力，力量，接受力；容量，能量，容积
capacity例句：
She is employed by the president in an advisory capacity.她被总裁聘为顾问。
This carriage has a seating capacity of 120 people.这节车厢定员120人。
相关单词：idiot
idiot解释：n.白痴，傻子，笨蛋
idiot例句：
Only an idiot would make such a thoughtless remark.只有草包才会说出这样没有头脑的话来。
You are behaving like a perfect idiot.你表现得像个十足的白痴。
相关单词：idiots
idiots解释：傻子，笨蛋( idiot的名词复数 )； 白痴
idiots例句：
"How I hate them-those idiots in charge of the town! “我恨极了，那班混账东西！ 来自子夜部分
'May the Devil carry away these idiots! “但愿魔鬼把这些白痴都抓了去！ 来自英汉文学 - 双城记
