When I walk along with two others, they may serve me as my teachers. I will select their good qualities and follow them, their bad qualities and avoid them.
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ConfuciusAnalects, Book VII, tr. James Legge
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Chinese teacher and philosopher whose sayings were collected in the Analects. (551-479 BC)
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