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Chinese fables and folk stories

Note 2 — THE STORY OF TSEN-TSZE, A PUPIL OF CONFUCIUS

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About two thousand four hundred and twenty years ago, Tsen-Tsze2 was a child and lived in San-Szi Province. For twenty-one years he studied many things with the great teacher, Confucius. And the first great moral law of Confucius he obeyed, not only in his acts, but in his heart, even when beaten for a thing he did not understand.3 And it is not on record that any other man has ever done this.

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