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that's good
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When I was a boy I read Confucius
over and over again
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Father...
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If I learn to do
needlework...
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...someday I can make kimonos
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But what good will
book learning ever do me?
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Well, it probably won't ever be
as useful as needlework
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But you know...
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...book learning gives you
the power...
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...to think
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However the world might change
if you have the power to think...
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...you'll always survive somehow
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that's true for boys
and for girls
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All right?
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Yes
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Keep reading, then
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tseng tzu said: Each day
in three ways---
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...I ask myself---
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...if I have faithfully carried out
what I undertook for another---
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My mother's illness had left
my father deep in debt
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As Grandmother lost her wits, all the
housework, the gathering of fuel...
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...and the field work fell to him
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Left with little time
to attend to himself...
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...he gradually became
unkempt and grimy
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As his daughter, I felt terrible
about this