De Maistre says that "to know HOW TO WAIT is the great secret of success".
麦斯特说：“懂得怎样等待是成功的一大秘诀。”
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Just as a skilled conversationalist brings alive the least promising interlocutor, so Berlin could conjure a fascinating essay from the most forbidding pages of Fichte, or Vico, or De Maistre.