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I do not think, Gentlemen, that we need to bother ourselves today with any definition of a 'classic,' or of the stigmata by which a true classic can be recognised. Sainte-Beuve once indicated these in a famous discourse, "Qu'est-ce qu'un classique": and it may suffice us that these include Universality and Permanence. Your true classic is universal