It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent.

  • -- Jean de La Bruyere 布吕耶尔

没有足够的才智把话说好,没有足够的判断力保持沉默,这是一种巨大的不幸。

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One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lost their edge.

这门语言的困难之一是我们所有的单词都因为使用不当而失去了它们的优势。

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

在我们这个时代,政治演讲和写作在很大程度上是站不住脚的辩护。