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1 простота хуже воровства
Set phrase: be just before you are generous, crudeness is no goodness, crudeness is worse than thieving, though modesty be a virtue, yet bashfulness is a vice (simplicity is worse than robbery. used disapprovingly about a person whose naivety and blind trustfulness cause trouble, may do harm)Универсальный русско-английский словарь > простота хуже воровства
См. также в других словарях:
literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… … Universalium