Variant translation: Your question, Mr. Examining Magistrate, as to whether I am a house-painter — although you did not ask a question at all, you made a statement — typifies exactly the kind of proceedings that are being instituted against me. The Trial
"The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large." The Analects of Confucius
Broadly speaking, short words are best, and the old words, when short, are best of all. Never Give In!
A gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about. The Gambler
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