"Ch‘ang," said he, "is wanton; where do you get at his inflexibleness?" The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches
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This accounts in a measure for his coolness, his self-possession, and that kind of uncompromising rectitude or inflexibleness that marks his career, and that he so lauds in his essays. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers