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The hills and rivers of the lowland country
You have made your battle-ground.
How do you suppose the people who live there
Will procure 'firewood and hay' ?
Do not let me hear you talking together
About titles and promotions;
For a single General's promotion
Is made out of ten thousand corpses.
TS"AO SUNG
Translated from the Chinese by Arthur Waley
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