もし君が死後にその名を残したければ、読まれるに値するものを書くか、書かれるに値することをしなさい。 - ベンジャミン・フランクリン (1706 - 90)
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If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing. - Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 90)
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