Ihara Saikaku: Goodness

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“Harshness is for the good of a boy, soft-heartedness will ruin him.”

Book V, ch. 5.
The Japanese Family Storehouse (1688)

“If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.”

Book III, ch. 4.
The Japanese Family Storehouse (1688)