"A classic": something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. - Mark Twain (1835 - 1910): Speech, quoting Professor Caleb Winchester, 20 Nov 1900, Nineteenth Century Club, NYC
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「古典」： 誰もが読んでしまいたいと思っているが、誰も読みたいとは思わないもの。 - マーク・トウェイン (1835 - 1910): 1900年11月20日ニューヨーク市でのスピーチ（ケーレブ・ウィンチェスター教授の言葉より）
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