Source: Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea (2014), Chapter 2, “The Captain’s Last Supper” (p. 8)
“How well I know that loyalty brings disaster.”
—
Qu Yuan
Source: "Encountering Sorrow" (trans. David Hawkes), Line 21
Original
余固知謇謇之为患兮。
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