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Sentence #828341

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 Swift Swift April 7, 2011 April 7, 2011 at 8:19:16 PM UTC flag Report link Permalink

Please remove the annotation.

Swift Swift April 8, 2011 April 8, 2011 at 6:47:21 PM UTC flag Report link Permalink

I agree. I guess one could swap “do” for “be done”. Another alternative:

It is not enough to do good; one must also do it well. -- Swift

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This sentence was initially added as a translation of sentence #810304Ne sufiĉas fari bonon, necesas ankoraŭ fari ĝin bone..

It is not enough to do good, it must also do well.

added by Manfredo, April 7, 2011
➜ #810304Ne sufiĉas fari bonon, necesas ankoraŭ fari ĝin bone.

linked by Manfredo, April 7, 2011
It is not enough to do good, it must also do well. (Diderot)

edited by Manfredo, April 7, 2011
➜ #828685做好事是不夠的，還必須做得很好。

linked by Martha, April 7, 2011
It is not enough to do good, it must also do well.

edited by Manfredo, April 8, 2011
➜ #829274Il ne suffit pas de faire le bien, il faut encore le bien faire.

linked by Cocorico, April 8, 2011
It is not enough to do good; one must also do it well.

edited by Scott, June 10, 2011
➜ #828334Es genügt nicht, Gutes zu tun, man muss es auch gut machen.

linked by marcelostockle, February 17, 2012
➜ #1439542No basta con hacer el bien; también hay que hacerlo bien.

linked by marcelostockle, February 17, 2012
➜ #3231599Ei riitä, että tekee hyvää - se täytyy tehdä myös hyvin.

linked by Silja, May 4, 2014
➜ #8288381Nestačí činit dobro, člověk je také musí dělat dobře.

linked by jose76c, October 27, 2019