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Yuan Mei
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“I've ever thought it passing odd How all men reverence some God, And wear their lives out for his sake And bow their heads until they ache. 'Tis clear to me the Gods are made Of the same stuff as wind or shade. ... Ah! if they came to every caller, I'd be the very loudest bawler!”
Yuan Mei (1716–1797) said by 1797 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Scoffer", as translated by Herbert Giles in Chinese Poetry in English Verse (1898), p. 189, and quoted by Leonard Feinberg in Hypocrisy: Don't Leave Home Without It (2002), p. 147
“If I can rejoice for a moment, Death at an early age would still be a long life.”
Yuan Mei (1716–1797) said by 1797 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Miscellaneous Poems" III, quoted in Albert Davis (ed.), The Penguin Book of Chinese Verse (1962), p. 67