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没了诚信我再也不会快乐
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在纽约繁华的大街上，发生了这样一件令人惊异的事。
一个星期五的晚上，有一位年轻的艺术家，站在地铁站口，拉着小提琴。音乐很棒，但人们却忙着回家度周末。因此，许多人慢下了脚步，往年轻人的帽子里放上些钱。
第二天，这个年轻人又来到地铁站口，把帽子优雅地放在地上。和昨天不同，他拿出一大张纸，铺在地上，上面放了些石头。然后，他调好琴，开始演奏。音乐听起来更加悦耳。
很快，年轻的小提琴手身边聚满了人，所有人都被纸上写的话所吸引。纸上写着：“昨天晚上，一位叫乔治·桑的先生在我帽子里误放了一样重要的东西。请速来认领。”
这使大家兴奋不已，人人想知道这到底是什么东西。半小时后，一个中年人匆匆跑来，挤过人群，来到小提琴手身边，一把抓住他的肩膀，说：“对，正是你。你还真来了。我知道你是诚实的人，一定会来这儿的。”
小提琴手平静地问：“你是乔治·桑先生吗？”
这个人点了点头。小提琴手又问：“你丢什么东西了吗？”
“彩票，是彩票。”这个人说。
小提琴手取出一张彩票，上面有乔治·桑的名字，问：“是这张吗？” 乔治立刻点头，他抓住彩票，吻了一下，随后和小提琴手一起欢快地跳了起来。
故事原来是这样的：乔治·桑是个职员。几天前，他买了张银行发行的彩票。昨天开奖，他中了五十万美元。下班后，他非常高兴，觉得音乐非常美妙，就掏出五十美元放进了帽子。然而，彩票也被投了进去。小提琴手是艺术学院的一名学生，计划去越南深造。他预订了机票，今早飞往越南。然而，清理东西时，他发现了这张彩票。想到主人会回来寻找，他取消了航班，回到此处。
后来，有人问小提琴手：“那时，你需要钱付学费，不得不在地铁演奏挣钱。那为什么没有留下那张彩票呢？”
小提琴手答：“虽然我没有钱，但我活得很快乐；但如果失去诚信，我就再也不会快乐了。”
我们一生中，会有许多收获和损失。但诚信应永远与我们相伴。如果容忍自己欺骗和不诚实，我们可能会暂时成功。然而，从长远来看，我们却是输家。这种人就像山巅之水，开始时高高在上，但它却在逐渐地一点一滴地下落，再无上升的机会。 附：原文 In the busy city of New York,such an astonishing thing that ever happened. On a Friday night, a poor young artist stood at the gate of the subway station, playing his violin. Though the music was great, people were quickly going home for the weekend. In this case, many of them slowed down their paces and put some money into the hat of the young man. The next day, the young artist came to the gate of the subway station, and put his hat on the ground gracefully. Different than the day before, he took out a large piece of paper and laid it on the ground and put some stones on it. Then he adjusted the violin and began playing. It seemed more pleasant to listen to. Before long,the young violinist was surrounded with people, who were all attracted by the words on that paper. It said, "Last night, a gentleman named George Sang put an important thing into my hat by mistaken. Please come to claim itsoon." Seeing this,it caused a great excitement and people wondered what it could be. After about half an hour, a middle-aged man ran there in a hurry and rushed through the crowd to the violinist and grabbed his shoulders and said, "Yes, it's you.You did come here. I knew that you're an honest man and would certainly come here." The young violinist asked calmly, "Are you Mr. George Sang?" The man nodded. The violinist asked, "Did you lose something?" "Lottery.It's lottery," said the man. The violinist took out a lottery ticket on which George Sang's name was seen."Is it?" he asked. George nodded promptly and seized the lottery ticket and kissed it, then he danced with the violinist. The story turned out to be this: George Sang is an office clerk. He bought a lottery ticket issued by a bank a few days ago. The awards opened yesterday and he won a prize of $500,000. So he felt very happy after work and felt the music was so wonderful, that he took out 50 dollars and put in the hat. However the lottery ticket was also thrown in. The violinist was a student at an Arts College and had planned to attend advanced studies in Vienna. He had booked the ticket and would fly that morning. However when he was cleaning up he found the lottery ticket.Thinking that the owner would return to look for it, he cancelled the flight and came back to where he was given the lottery ticket. Later someone asked the violinist: "At that time you were in need to pay the tuition fee and you had to play the violin in the subway station every day to make the money. Then why didn't you take the lottery ticket for yourself?" The violinist said, "Although I don't have much money, I live happily; but if I lose honesty I won't be happy forever." Through our lives, wecan gain a lot and lose so much. But being honest should always be with us. If we bear ourselves in a deceptive and dishonest way, we may succeed temporarily.However, from the long-term view, we will be a loser. Such kind of people are just like the water on the mountain. It stands high above the masses at the beginning, but gradually it comes down inch by inch and loses the chance ofgoing up. | 
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