We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

  • -- W. Somerset Maugham 威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆

我们了解朋友靠的是他们的缺点,而不是他们的优点。

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In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.

在我祖父的实验室里,科学家们进行了独立的研究,同行们对它的优点进行了评论。他告诉我,政治在科学过程中没有地位。

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

我们爱的不是品质,而是人;有时是因为他们的缺点,也因为他们的品质。

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

伟人的缺点是蠢人的安慰。