Bad government worse than tigers!

I would like to have called [this book] ‘A lyrical Philosophy,” using the word ‘lyrical’ in the sense of being a highly personal and individual outlook. But that would have been too beautiful a name and I must forgo it, for fear of aiming too high and leading the reader to expect too much.



-Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living, 1937

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Once Confucius was walking on the mountains and he came across a woman weeping by a grave. He asked the woman what here sorrow was, and she replied, We are a family of hunters. My father was eaten by a tiger. My husband was bitten by a tiger and died. And now my only son! Why don't you move down and live in the valley? Why do you continue to live up here? asked Confucius. And the woman replied, But sir, there are no tax collectors here! Confucius added to his disciples, You see, a bad government is more to be feared than tigers.

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