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Confucius
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  • You should have done a clue with Confucius, I would have gotten that.†  (source)
  • It was cryptic, sort of a Confucius-says answer, but it worked on almost every civilian.†  (source)
  • He's probably going to wake up Confucius," Annabeth guessed.†  (source)
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  • Aristophanes and Mahatma Gandhi and Gautarna Buddha and Confucius and Thomas Love Peacock and Thomas Jefferson and Mr. Lincoln, if you please.†  (source)
    Confucius = Chinese philosopher (circa 551-478 BC)
  • That's what Confucius would have said, I thought.†  (source)
  • It's too active for passive reflection, which is the soul of Confucius, as I'm sure you know.†  (source)
  • And on Sundays, from noon to midnight, we went to the movies at the Confucius Church.†  (source)
  • As Confucius once said, 'He who does nothing is the one who does nothing.†  (source)
  • A man may spend many years pondering a sentence of the scholar you call Confucius.†  (source)
  • At sixty, said Confucius, I was no longer argumentative.†  (source)
  • The Catholic Church or the maxims of Confucius?†  (source)
  • Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicate to the sayings of Confucius.†  (source)
  • There Passepartout beheld beautiful fir and cedar groves, sacred gates of a singular architecture, bridges half hid in the midst of bamboos and reeds, temples shaded by immense cedar-trees, holy retreats where were sheltered Buddhist priests and sectaries of Confucius, and interminable streets, where a perfect harvest of rose-tinted and red-cheeked children, who looked as if they had been cut out of Japanese screens, and who were playing in the midst of short-legged poodles and yellowish cats, might have been gathered.†  (source)
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