I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
我不知道这是否应该,但聪明人若厚着脸皮去做傻事,傻事似乎就不再显得傻了。
— Jane Austen · Emma (1815) —
I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
我不知道这是否应该,但聪明人若厚着脸皮去做傻事,傻事似乎就不再显得傻了。