the good die young

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谚语
  1. Well-regarded people who are morally upright, kind, and beneficent tend to die at a younger age than do most people.
    — "You'll live," put in Mr. Pedagog, with a chuckle. "The good die young."

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only the good die young alternative

词源

Variant of the Latin Quem di diligunt adulescens moritur ("whom the gods love dies young"), from Plautus's Bacchides, apparently adapted from a line in Dis Exapaton (The Double Deceiver) by Menander.
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