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Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.

  • -- William Congreve 康格里夫

智慧必被智慧所挫败:以牙还牙。

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Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.

即使整个大地和大海都变成金子，也无法满足一个女人的贪婪……用指甲刮钻石比用人类的聪明才智让一个女人同意捐出她的积蓄要容易得多。

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The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.

钻石切割得越多，就越闪亮;在那看似艰难的事上，神除了成全他的百姓之外，没有别的目的。

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For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

因为那些智慧成为罪恶之母的人，那些智慧教育他们在所有的事情上都是邪恶的。

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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

智慧不足，判断不足;压舱物不足，航行有余。

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