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| Scope: The Seldom Seen Request type: Paragraph |
| Condition 1: Contains text "或曰良玉不雕美言不文何謂也" Matched:1. |
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《寡见卷第七 - The Seldom Seen》 | English translation: Jeffrey S. Bullock [?] | Library Resources |
| 7 | 寡见卷第... : | 或曰：“良玉不雕，美言不文，何谓也？”曰：“玉不雕，璵璠不作器。言不文，典谟不作经。” |
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Someone said: "Excellent jade need not be carved, and beautiful words need not be refined." What would you say about that? Yangzi said: If jade were not carved, then yufan could not be made into implements. If their speech were not refined, the Yaodian and Gao Yao mo could not have become classics. |
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