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Rh 44. Trifling articles from a thousand miles sent, Be sure the addresse [sic] gets the consignment.

45. Can say you dress when it is torn out, It is your wife after the death no doubt.

46. Good liquor spreads out to distant lane, The strict fathers have filial sons to train.

47. When our house without having a learned son, On what grounds the mandarins are to come.

48. A peg of congratulation is not for cognizance, And a treatment of meal is not for minute observance.

49, Though man attains old age, yet his heart is not old, While man is poor, but his inclinations are bold.

50. A child does not dislike a plain mother, A dog does not despise a poor master.

51. Tauist [sic] sect expels devilish enchantments, And Budha [sic] reformed his persuasions.

52. Together a learned, better to die with Than in company with a fool to live.

53. That family can’t attain to goodness, don’t say, For the son of great promise may be on its way.

54. Cannot say, there be no destruction in our family, For the ruinous son is not yet come to age strikingly.

55. Liquor turns into vinegar, when a household comes to ruin, And house becomes a public road, when destitute prevailing.

56. There is neither immortal family, Nor at all a permanent dynasty.

57. Back not before a host, keep benign, But need not before a mandarin.

58. Nothing difficult in the world of wheel, But if not be lacking in fervent zeal.