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PT. II. SECT. XIII. THE WRITINGS OF KWANG-32E.
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mistook the clear pool. And moreover I have heard the Master say !, “Going where certain customs prevail, you should follow those customs.” I was walking about in the park of Tiâo-ling, and forgot myself. A strange bird brushed past my forehead, and went flying about in the grove of chestnuts, where it forgot the true (art of preserving itself). The forester of the chestnut grove thought that I was a fitting object for his reproach. These are the reasons why I have avoided the courtyard.
9. Yang-zze, having gone to Sung, passed the night in a lodging-house, the master of which had two concubines ;—one beautiful, the other ugly? The ugly one was honoured, however, and the beautiful one contemned. Yang-zze asked the reason, and a little boy of the house replied, 'The beauty knows her beauty, and we do not recognise it. The ugly one knows her ugliness, and we do not recognise it.' Yang-zze said, “Remember it, my disciples. Act virtuously, and put away the practice of priding yourselves on your virtue. If you do this, where can you go to that you will not be loved 3 ?'
1 Who was this Master?'
? The story here is found in Lieh-jze II, 15 a, b. The Yang-zze is there Yang Ka, against whom Mencius so often directed his arguments.
3 See the greater part of this paragraph in Prémare's 'Notitia Linguae Sinicae,' p. 200, with his remarks on the style.
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