Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.

-- Phaedrus 菲得洛斯

俏皮话只要我们把它们限制在一定范围内，就会让人高兴，但如果我们把它们推得太过，就会引起冒犯。

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It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.

与稀缺串通一气比与过剩串通一气更有益。

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Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

恶习有时只是美德过分了!

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You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.

你不能把两个笨蛋变成一个聪明人。

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Analysis is soul of thought and ghost of wit.

分析是思想的灵魂，智慧的幽灵。

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