要約問題/1979年

　次の文の要旨を50字から70字の日本文で書け。ただし句読点も字数にかぞえる。

　No one can write a man's life but himself. The character of his inner being, his real life, is known only to himself, but in writing it he disguises it. Under the name of his life he makes an apology. He shows himself as he wishes to be seen, but not at all as he is. The sincerest persons are truthful at most in what they say, but they lie by their silences. Things of which they say nothing so change what they pretend to confess that in uttering only a part of the truth they say nothing. A man may show himself with his faults but he is certain to give himself none but amiable ones, and there is no man who has not odious ones. He may paint his likeness but it is a profile. Who know whether some ugly scar on the cheek or an eye put out on the side which he conceals from us would not have totally changed the appearance of his face?