The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

真相很少纯粹，也决不简单。

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

真理很少是纯粹的，更不会是简单的。

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

真相，鲜有纯粹，从不简单。

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You never seen a frog so honest and simple as he was, for all he was so skilled.

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There is probably an element of truth in all three suggestions, for the Wordsworth who emerges from this portrait is a contradictory human being whose motives are rarely pure and never simple.

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And yet these same people never had a clear, simple and easy-to-understand basic message on the topic.

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