It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

  • -- Russell Lynes 拉塞尔·里奈斯

坦率地接受自己的缺点总是好的,而礼貌地怀疑地对待朋友的缺点总是好的。

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

你的朋友会在你遇见的第一分钟就更了解你,而你的熟人在一千年后也不会了解你。

Share what you like and don’t pretend to like things you don’t. There are many ways to be honest but polite.

分享你喜欢的东西,不要假装喜欢你不喜欢的东西。有很多方法可以做到诚实但有礼貌。

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

如果我不能理解我朋友的沉默,我将永远无法理解他的话。

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

没有哪一种语言是粗鲁的,却能以作家的彬彬有礼为荣。