紳士はラテン語を覚えていなくても良いが、ただし、忘れてしまったということでなくてはならない。
Latin for the modern Occidental may almost correspond to Ancient Chinese for the Japanese. James Brander Matthews (1852 -- 1929), a professor at Colombia in the US, stated his jocular viewpoint on learning the classical language,
A gentleman need not know Latin; but at least he should have forgotten it.
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