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Friday, August 31, 2012
Mencius - Book 4, Part 1, Chapter 24
The disciple Yo-chang went in the train of Tsze-âo to Ch'î.
He came to see Mencius, who said to him, 'Are you also come to see me?' Yo-chang replied, 'Master, why do you speak such words?' 'How many days have you been here?' asked Mencius. 'I came yesterday.' 'Yesterday! Is it not with reason then that I thus speak?' 'My lodging-house was not arranged.' 'Have you heard that a scholar's lodging-house must be arranged before he visit his elder?'
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