Confucian Analects · Analects 15.25
The Master said, 'Even in my early days, a historiographer would leave a blank in his text, and he who had a horse would lend him to another to ride. Now, alas! there are no such things.'
Chinese · source text【廿五章】子曰、吾猶及史之闕文也、有馬者、借人乘之、今亡矣夫。
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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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