"To understand is hard. Once one understands, action is easy."
"When we undertake a task, we should not falter from first to last until the task is accomplished; if we fail, we should not begrudge our lives as a sacrifice-this is what we mean by loyalty. The ancient teaching of loyalty meant sometimes death."
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Source: China as a Heap of Loose Sand (1924)
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