There are two kinds of people who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else. - Cyrus H. K. [Hermann Kotzschmar] Curtis (1850 - 1933)
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決して大成しない二種類の人々がいる： 言われたことが出来ない人、言われたことしか出来ない人。 - サイラス・Ｈ・Ｋ・カーティス (1850 - 1933)
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