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6.20The Master said, “To prefer it is better than only to know it. To delight in it is better than merely to prefer it.”
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6.12 Ran Qiu said,”It is not that your Way does not commend itself to me, but that it demands powers I do not possess.”
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5.28 The Master said, “In a hamlet of ten houses you may be sure of finding someone quite as loyal and true to his word as I. But I doubt if you would find anyone with such a love of learning.”
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5.9 The Master in discussing Zigong said to him, “Which do you yourself think is the better, you or Hui?”
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3.16 The Master said, “The saying In archery it is not the hide that counts,For some men have more strength than others, is the way of the Ancients.”
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The Master said, “He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”