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things?”
Mencius replied, “Being wise and good, they

have pleasure in these things. If they are not wise
and good, though they have these things, they do
not find pleasure. It is said in the Book of Poetry, ‘He
measured out and commenced his marvellous tower;
He measured it out and planned it. The people
addressed themselves to it, and in less than a day
completed it. When he measured and began it, he
said to them—Be not so earnest. But the multitudes
came as if they had been his children. The king was
in his marvellous park; the does reposed about,
the does so sleek and fat; and the white birds came
glistening. The king was by his marvellous pond;
how full was it of fishes leaping about!’ King Wen
used the strength of the people to make his tower
and his pond, and yet the people rejoiced to do
the work, calling the tower ‘the marvellous tower’,
calling the pond ‘the marvellous pond’, and rejoicing

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