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A man who pursues learning must collect his scattered thoughts and concentrate all his mental powers on his studies.
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People who take coarse food and drink usually have morals as clean as ice and as pure as jade. Those, on the other hand, who set great store by fine garments and tasty fare tend to be servile flatterers and willing slaves.
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A person who shuns power, wealth and luxury is clean. But a man who comes into contact with power, wealth and luxury and still remains unsullied is even cleaner.
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Those who preserve their moral integrity suffer only fleeting loneliness. But eternal wretchedness awaits those who toady to the powerful.
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Strange Tales from Liaozhai (a Chinese Studio): A Xia narrates the tragic romance between scholar Jing and the beautiful A Xia (not a human being).
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Strange Tales from Liaozhai: Nie Xiaoqian, a renowned tale by Qing writer Pu Songling, weaves a fantasy of love, ethics, and salvation through a human-ghost romance.