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 practice: then you will seldom have occasion for repentance. If you seldom err in your speech, and seldom have to repent of your actions, official preferment will come of itself.

The Master said: I do not see how a man without sincerity can be good for anything. How can a cart or carriage be made to go without yoke or cross-bar?

To sacrifice to a spirit with which you have nothing to do, is more servility.

To shirk your duty when you see it before you, shows want of moral courage.

Some one inquired as to the meaning of the Great Sacrifice, The Master said; I do not know. He who knew its meaning would find it as easy to govern the Empire as to look upon this (pointing to his palm).

Wang-sun Chia asked, saying: What means the adage, "Better be civil to the kitchen-god than to the god of the inner sanctum"?—The