Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle-headedness -- and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all. That is what I was at nineteen and twenty. - Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) "Letter to Jacob H. Burrough， 1 November 1876"
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無知、不寛容、利己主義、自己過信、不明瞭な認識、愚かで卑しむべき嘲笑的態度、――そしてそのすべてが痛々しいまでの無意識状態。それが19歳から20歳の私であった。 - マーク・トウェイン (1835 - 1910) “ジェイコブ・Ｈ・バロウへの手紙、1876年11月1日”
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