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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If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

如果你能在别人失去理智、责备你的时候保持理智。世界将属于你，世界上的一切都将属于你，更重要的是，你将成为一个男子汉，我的孩子。

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There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.

在日常交谈中，有两件事是普通人不喜欢的——信息和风趣。

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This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.

我认为这是生活中一个有价值的原则:不要做任何事情过度。

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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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