He that tries to recommend him by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in Hierocles, who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen.
试图用精选的语录来推荐他的人，将会像希罗克勒斯的学究一样成功。当他把自己的房子拿去出售时，他的口袋里就装着一块砖作为样本。
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