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Confucianism -> Liji -> Biao Ji -> 9

The Master said,
'Without the interchange of the formal messages, there can be no reception of one party by another;
without the presenting of the ceremonial (gifts), there can be no interview (with a superior)
- these rules were made that the people might not take troublesome liberties with one another!
It is said in the Yi,
"When he shows (the sincerity that marks) the first recourse to divination, I instruct him.
If he apply a second and third time, that is troublesome,
。』」 and I do not instruct the troublesome."'


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