I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

  • -- Xenocrates 外来物种

我常常后悔说话,但从不后悔不说话。

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Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

世俗的面孔从来没有在葬礼上显得那么世俗。它们具有刺耳的不协调的效果,就像一个粗哑的声音打破了夜晚的肃穆寂静。

Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.

沉默和机智可能是一回事,也可能不是一回事。