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Analects of Confucius · Chapter 5: Book V: KUNG-YE CH'ANG

Analects of Confucius 5.21

translated from Classical Chinese by James Legge, 1893

When the Master was in Ch’an, he said, ‘Let me return! Let me return! The little children of my school are ambitious and too hasty. They are accomplished and complete so far, but they do not know how to restrict and shape themselves.’

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