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The Master said, “If a good person instructs the people for seven years, they will be ready to take up arms.”
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Mencius said: “When the whole world is delighted and ready to submit to him, Shun regarded this universal acclaim as lightly as a blade of grass or a speck of dust. Only Shun could do this.”
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3.22 The Master said, “Guan Zhong was in reality a man of very narrow capacities.”