783
The inquisitive are the funnels of conversation; they do not take in anything for their own use, but merely to pass it to others.
—Steele.
784
What future misery ought they to endure who talk of what is not good in others.
—Chinese Maxim.
785
If families have no sons devoted to letters, whence are the governors of the people to come?
(Necessity for general education.)
—Chinese.