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Analects of Confucius · Chapter 8: Book VIII: T'AI-PO

Analects of Confucius 8.17

translated from Classical Chinese by James Legge, 1893

The Master said, ‘Learn as if you could not reach your object, and were always fearing also lest you should lose it.’

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