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Chapter 45 of Romance of the Three Kingdoms – titled “Zhou Yu Schemes to Eliminate Cai Mao and Zhang Yun; Jiang Gan Falls for the Bait at the Heroes’ Feast” – unfolds as a masterclass in psychological warfare and strategic deception on the eve of the epochal Battle of Red Cliffs.
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An irascible person is like a raging fire; whatever he encounters he wants to burn it up.
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A person of riches and rank should be magnanimous, and never be envious or stingy. Otherwise he would be acting like a mean person, and how then could he really enjoy his riches?
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The cuttlefish has four pairs of legs which it can draw into its beak, and it can hide its beak under its belly.