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A parable on study
“I am seventy already,” said Duke Ping of Jin to his blind musician Shi Kuang. “Though I want very much to study and read some books, I feel it is too late.”
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Blind Steps and Crippled Eyes
A certain country was invaded by its enemy. When a lame man there told a blind man of this, the blind man carried the lame one on his back and they escaped together.
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The Clay Idol and the Peachwood Doll
When Lord Mengchang decided to leave his native land – Qi state – to take office in Qin, hundreds of men tried to dissuade him from going. But he would not listen to them. Then Su Qin, the rhetorician, wanted to reason with him.
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Thousand gold for horse bones
There was a king who was willing to pay a thousand pieces of gold for a horse that could run a thousand li without stopping. However, he tried in vain for three years to find such a steed.