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Talents compete according to their interests. Humble people are content with vulgar and vulgar rules and become more and more dirty; The highest people yearn for the road of philosophical prosperity, and the days are brilliant.

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A person's quality depends on his interests. Those who are not interested are satisfied with vulgar cliches, so they are getting dirty. He admired sages and dragons, so he became more and more talented.

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Ou Yangxun, the son of his good friend Ou Yangxun, is twenty years old and ambitious. He wrote to encourage him to continue his efforts. It is an important rule to predict the future of young people from their interests. Ou Yangxun is studious and has little ambition. He could have done something, but he died of illness soon. At the request of his father, he wrote a preface to Selected Works, praising its poetic writing: "Clearing the town and congenial, sometimes there is a sense of separation."