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The gentleman knows that whatever is imperfect and unrefined does not deserve praise.
Xunzi, ch. 1, “An Exhortation to Learning”; as translated in P. J. Ivanhoe and B. W. Van Norden (eds.), Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy (2001), p. 260
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