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Confucianism -> Mengzi -> Teng Wen Gong II -> 8.8

Mencius answered,
When a son is born, what is desired for him is that he may have a wife;
when a daughter is born, what is desired for her is that she may have a husband.
This feeling of the parents is possessed by all men.
If the young people, without waiting for the orders of their parents, and the arrangements of the go-betweens,
shall bore holes to steal a sight of each other,
or get over the wall to be with each other,
then their parents and all other people will despise them.
The ancients did indeed always desire to be in office,
but they also hated being so by any improper way.
To seek office by an improper way
。” is of a class with young people's boring holes.'


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