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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
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2 простота хуже воровства
посл.lit. simplicity is worse than robbery; cf. though modesty be a virtue, yet bash-fulness is a vice; be just before you are generousПросто-то оно, конечно, просто, да ведь иная простота хуже воровства. Подитко спроста-то коснись, ан с первого же шага в такое несметное множество капканов попадёшь, что и голову там, пожалуй, оставишь! (М. Салтыков-Щедрин, Добродетели и пороки) — Maybe it sounded simple enough, but then there are times when simplicity is worse than robbery. Just go and touch something 'in all simplicity'! From the very first step you'll encounter so many pitfalls that you'll be lucky if you don't leave your head behind you.
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