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THE LÎ xt.
BK. XXXVIII.
righteous in his conduct. He said, “To the end of my days I will not presume to make a jest of the name of scholar?'
It is doubtful whether any of this paragraph should be ascribed to Confucius, even in the sense in which we receive the preceding paragraphs as from him. Evidently the latter half of it is a note by the compiler to show the effect which the long discourse had on duke Âi.
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