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Before reading Romance, one should read the Book of Poetry.

— Jin Shengtan

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To cut with a sharp knife a bright green watermelon on a big scarlet plate of a summer afternoon. Ah, is this not happiness?

Eat pickled turnips with yellow beans. It gives the taste of walnut.

To find accidently a handwritten letter of some old friend in a trunk. Ah, is this not happiness?

To open the window and let a wasp out of the room. Ah, is this not happiness?

To have just finished repaying all one's debts. Ah, is this not happiness?

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