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Analects of Confucius · Chapter 4: Book IV: LE JIN

Analects of Confucius 4.22

translated from Classical Chinese by James Legge, 1893

The Master said, ‘The reason why the ancients did not readily give utterance to their words, was that they feared lest their actions should not come up to them.’

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