The clock this client would get would be far more clever than had been ordered, and the man had better be able to appreciate the joke.

这位客户要的时钟将比其他已经定制的时钟要聪明很多，那个男人最好是能够欣赏这个笑话。

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If I were to be dressed in a suit made of this cloth I should be able to find out which men in my empire were unfit for their places, and I could distinguish the clever from the stupid.

如果要我穿上这个布做我应该能够找出这在我的帝国男子因不适合他们的地方，我能分辨出从愚蠢的聪明了诉讼。

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Curiously, the able, the clever, and the ambitious and haughty are at the same time the most cowardly and muddleheaded, lacking in the courage and depth and subtlety of the humorists.

很奇怪地，那些有能力的人、聪明的人、有野心的人、傲慢的人，同时，也就是最懦弱而糊涂的人，缺乏幽默家的勇气、深刻和机巧。

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