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Confucian Analects · Analects 10.9

If his mat was not straight, he did not sit on it.
Chinese · source text【第九章】席不正不坐。
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Confucius · English translation by James Legge · bilingual transcription
James Legge, The Chinese Classics, Volume 1: Confucian Analects · Project Gutenberg #4094
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