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Chen Zi'ang is one of the early masters of Tang poetry. Now you can
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Studying Lao Tse
by Bai Ju Yi
A speaker cannot convey
A wise man's silence
These words I learned
From a wise old man
To the old man
The silent path
Was so well known
He put five thousand things
Into his words as well
读老子
言者不如知者默
此语吾闻于老君
若道老君是知者
缘何自著五千文
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