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Trần Tế Xương
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“What earthly use are these Confucian graphs? Masters and doctors lie curled up and wilt. Why not take lessons and become a clerk? At night champagne, at break of day cow's milk!”
Trần Tế Xương (1870–1907) said by 1907 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Poem 71 in An Anthology of Vietnamese Poems, trans. Huỳnh Sanh Thông (Yale University Press, 1996),