Perhaps I should have used Rosalynn Carter’s brilliant response to a similar question in 1976: If I had, I wouldn’t tell you.

也许我应该借用罗莎琳.卡特在1976年对一个相似问题非常机智的回答：“如果我有的话，我不会告诉你。”

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The scene in question involves Lucius Cornelius Sulla, a brilliant general who was of the generation just before the great Caesar.

刚刚提到的场景里有一个卓越的将军苏拉，他是伟大的凯撒大帝的上一辈。

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His website poses a question at the end of each of his essays: "Brilliant?"

在他的网站上，他于每篇随笔的结尾处都提出一个问题“辉煌？”

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"It was beyond a brilliant question, " commented Matthew Baysinger of Charlottesville, Virginia.

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He is a clearly brilliant man who considered all alternatives and saw all sides of a question.

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With a disarming innocence, he would question apparently obvious assumptions, drawing distinctions so subtle that they escaped more conventionally brilliant minds.

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