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Analects of Confucius · Chapter 3: Book III: PA YIH

Analects of Confucius 3.16

translated from Classical Chinese by James Legge, 1893

The Master said, ‘In archery it is not going through the leather which is the principal thing;— because people’s strength is not equal. This was the old way.’

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