1. Anyone who reads useless books is just playing with things and losing hope.

2. When scholars study, they must first have ambition, secondly have knowledge, and thirdly have perseverance. If they have ambition, they will never be willing to be inferior. If they have knowledge, they will know that knowledge is endless and they will not dare to gain it with just one. Self-sufficient; like a river boy looking at the sea, like a well frog looking into the sky, both of them have no insight. If there is permanence, nothing can be accomplished. One of these three is indispensable.

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