Chinese mythology, folktales, and literature
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The Master said, “A shi (scholar-official) who is attached to comfort and domestic ease is not worthy to be called a shi.”
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The Master said, “To learn and at due times to repeat what one has learnt, is that not after all a pleasure? That friends should come to one from afar, is this not after all delightful? To remain unsoured even though one’s merits are unrecognized by others, is that not after all what is…