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and the shroud.”
Yue Zheng said, “That cannot be called

‘exceeding.’ That was the difference between being
poor and being rich.”

After this, Yue Zheng saw Mencius, and said
to him, “I told the prince about you, and he was
consequently coming to see you, when one of his
favourites, named Zang Cang, stopped him, and
therefore he did not come according to his purpose.”

Mencius said, “A man’s advancement is
effected, it may be, by others, and the stopping
him is, it may be, from the efforts of others. But
to advance a man or to stop his advance is really
beyond the power of other men. My not finding in
the prince of Lu a ruler who would confide in me,
and put my counsels into practice, is from Heaven.
How could that scion of the Zang family cause me
not to find the ruler that would suit me?”

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