I think you learned it, but then off you go. Always ignorin…
I think you learned it, but then off you go. Always ignoring the strength in reason, Flinging yourself from loyalty to treason. Why can’t you just admit that you were swayed By the fake piety that man displayed?… Attacking holy men who’ve earned The right to stand among the true believers. So now all holy men are base deceivers?… If your respect is something to be prized, Don’t toss it away to those disguised In a cloak of piety and virtue… Look for simple goodness—it does exist. And just watch for imposters in our midst.
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[Character 1] changed back into a mole-cricket and crawled out, after which, he flew back to the ear of [Character 2] and said, “Master, just guess it’s a monk.”… As they were thus talking among themselves, [Character 3] said, “Your majesty, this third time it is a Daoist youth.” He made the declaration several times, but nothing happened nor did anyone make an appearance. Pressing his palms together, [Character 2] said, “It’s a monk.” With all his might, [Character 4] screamed: “It’s a monk in the chest!” All at once the youth kicked open the chest and walked out, striking the wooden fish and chanting the name of Buddha. So delighted were the two rows of civil and military officials that they shouted bravos repeatedly; so astonished were the three Daoists that they could not utter a sound.
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Nothing could have been so fine, so brisk, so brilliant, so well-drilled as the two armies. The trumpets, the fifes, the oboes, the drums, and the cannon produced such a harmony as was never heard in hell. First the cannons battered down about six thousand men on each side; then volleys of musket fire removed from the best of worlds about nine or ten thousand rascals who were cluttering up its surface. The bayonet was a sufficient reason for the demise of several thousand others. Total casualties might well amount to thirty thousand men or so. [He], who was trembling like a philosopher, hid himself as best as he could while this heroic butchery was going on.
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