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- Families, when a child is born
- Want it to be intelligent.
- I, through intelligence,
- Having wrecked my whole life,
- Only hope the baby will prove
- Ignorant and stupid.
- Then he will crown a tranquil life
- By becoming a Cabinet Minister.
SU SHI, "On the Birth of His Son"
- To what can one compare our life on earth?
- To a flock of geese
- Waddling about in the snow
- Leaving a faint trace of their passage.
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