Chinese mythology, folktales, and literature
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8.11The Master said, “If a man has gifts as wonderful as those of the Duke of Zhou, yet is arrogant and mean, all the rest is of no account.”
A villager was once vending pears in a marketplace. The pears were sweet and luscious, but the price was high out of all proportion.
It is said that in the state of Qi, there lived a man named Dongguo Chang, whose greed knew no bounds. He constantly dreamed of amassing a great fortune—ten thousand taels of gold.