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If you can one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day. Yea, let there be daily renovation.

— Tang of Shang Attributed

茍日新，日日新，又日新。

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According to the Great Learning (ch. 2, sec 1) in the Book of Rites, these words were engraved on Tang's bath tub. Translation: James Legge, The Chinese Classics, vol. 1 (1861), p. 225. Chinese: Sheng Dai; Si Zi, "大學", in Donald Sturgeon (ed.) 禮記 ['Book of Rites'], Chinese Text Project

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