Anybody, it is supposed, can say what he means; and, in spite of their notorious experience to the contrary, people so continue to suppose.
人们以为,谁都能把自己的意思说清楚;尽管无数经验早已证明相反,他们仍这样以为。
— Robert Louis Stevenson · Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers · Virginibus Puerisque · IV · Truth of Intercourse —