Tao Te Ching

The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
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“Why did Emerson endorse Leaves of Grass... Emerson, the symbol of American idealism and intellectual and moral probity? Whitman himself knew that the book was 'an incongruous hash of mud and gold.'”

Lín Yǔtáng 林語堂 1895 – 1976 CE
from On the Wisdom of America (1950)

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