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Han shih wai chuan

Han Ying's Illustrations of the didactic application of the Classic of songs
Han, Ying
  
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INTRODUCTION

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CHAPTER VIII
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APPENDIX
  
BIBLIOGRAPHY
  
TABLE OF UNUSUAL ORTHOGRAPHIES
  
FINDING LIST
  
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There is a saying: "Birds fear birds with fine wings and curved
beaks;[1] fish fear fish with large mouths and pendant fat;[2] men

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fear men with sharp mouths[3] and facile speech."[4] For this
reason the superior man avoids the three points: he avoids the
brush-point of the literary man; he avoids the spear-point of the
military man; he avoids the tongue-point of the sophist.

The Ode says,[5]

If my friends would take care,
Would slanderous speeches be made?
 
[1]

For [OMITTED] read [OMITTED] with CHy and TPYL 464.4b. (Chao 168.)

[2]

[OMITTED]. The expression occurs in Lun hêng 7.14a: [OMITTED] "The
rulers Chieh and Chou had fat on their bellies hanging down for over a foot." It
seems to imply a voracious appetite.

[3]

[OMITTED]: cf. Analects 326 (17/18): "I hate those who with their sharp mouths
overthrow kingdoms and families."

[4]

For [OMITTED] TPYL, loc cit., has [OMITTED] "clever talkers." (Chao.)

[5]

Shih 296 No. 183/3.

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