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who is poor and yet happy, or rich and yet loves Courtesy." 2. Tzu Kung remarked: " The Ode says :- 'Like cutting, then filing ; Like chiselling, then grinding.' That is the meaning of your remark, is it not ? " 3. " Tz'u ! " said the Master. " Now indeed I can begin to talk with him about the Odes, for when I tell him the premise he knows the conclusion."

CHAPTER XVI.

The Master said: " I will not grieve that men do not know me ; I will grieve that I do not know men."