When you talk with famous scholars, the best thing is to pretend that occasionally you do not quite … - Lu Xun

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Where there is no history of struggle after an uprising, the living memory dies.

Lu Xun

When you talk with famous scholars, the best thing is to pretend that occasionally you do not quite understand them. If you understand too little, you will be despised; if you understand too much, you will be disliked; if you just fail occasionally to understand them, you will suit each other very well.

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