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

Analects of Confucius 4.9

translated from Classical Chinese by James Legge, 1893

The Master said, ‘A scholar, whose mind is set on truth, and who is ashamed of bad clothes and bad food, is not fit to be discoursed with.’

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