If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more. - Holden Caulfield -- J. D. [Jerome David] Salinger (1919 - 2010): The Catcher in the Rye Chapter 17
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やることがあまりに良いとなれば、しばらくして、気をつけないと、自慢たらしくなってくる。そうなると、もはやそれほど良いものでもなくなる。 - ホールデン・コールフィールド -- Ｊ・Ｄ・サリンジャー (1919 - 2010): 『ライ麦畑でつかまえて［ライ麦畑の捕手／キャッチャー・イン・ザ・ライ］』第17章
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