How much more elegant is it to slay your foe, with the roses of irony than to massacre him with the axes of sarcasm or to belabor him with the bludgeon of invective

• 用讥讽的玫瑰镇服你的对手，较之用嘲弄的板斧将他剁砍或用谩骂的大头棒将他捶打，更为温文尔雅。