“"Excellence," besought Kai Lung, not without misgivings,"how many warriors, each having some actual existence, are there in your never-failing band?"
"For all purposes save those of attack and defence there are fifteen score of the best and bravest, as their pay-sheets well attest," was the confident response. "In a strictly literal sense, however, there are no more than can be seen on a mist-enshrouded day with a resolutely closed eye."”

— Ernest Bramah, book Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat

The Meeting by the Way with the Warrior of Chi-u and What Emerged Therefrom"
Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat (1928)

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