“The Master said, […] "Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles." […] "Have no friends not equal to yourself." […] "When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them."”

—  James Legge

Bk. 1, Ch. 8 (p. 7)
Translations, The Confucian Analects

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missionary in China 1815–1897

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