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A man without passion or sentiment . . . is a worm, a machine, an automaton, a blot upon this earth. [101]
A man with a warm, generous and sentimental nature may be easily taken in by his cleverer fellowman. [101]
Sometimes the generous man comes home disillusioned to write a poem of bitterness. That is the case of many a poet and scholar in China. [101]
Emperor Ch'ienlung once went up a hill overlooking the sea during his trip to South China and saw a great number of sailing ships busily plying the China Sea to and fro. He asked his minister what the people in those hundreds of ships were doing, and his minister replied that he saw only two ships, and their names were "Fame" and "Wealth". [102]
How completely the great problems of labor, unemployment and tariffs leave the mind of a defeated presidential candidate even two weeks after an election! [103-04]
The praise of folly has never been interrupted in Chinese literature. [109]
Wise disenchantment with life receives a romantic or religious touch and enters the realm of poetic fantasy, when the poor, ragged and half-crazy monk becomes for us the symbol of highest wisdom and nobility of character. [110]