If she is stupid, she's at any rate pleasant to look at.
如果说她头脑不灵,她这人至少容貌不错。
Travel east or travel west, a man's own home is still the best.
走到东,走到西,最好还是到家里。
In the nineteenth century, a novelist would bring his story to a conclusion by presenting his readers with a series of coincidences -- most of them wildly improbable.