As long as you keep in the upper regions, with all the world bowing to you as you go, social arrangements have a very handsome air; but once get under the wheels, and you wish society were at the devil.

只要身处上层，所到之处人人鞠躬，社会的安排便显得十分美好；可一旦被卷到车轮底下，你便恨不得让整个社会见鬼去。