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This is the famous opening line of the recently-discovered mid-4th-century BCE manuscript 'Confucius's Essay on the Poetry' 〈孔子詩論〉. It reads: 'Poetry is not sparing of will [=desire]; Music is not sparing of emotions; Literary eloquence is not sparing of [words/meaning].'　孔子曰：「詩亡吝志，樂亡吝情，文亡吝［言／意］。」

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