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By Confucius
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
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- The Chinese Classics, vol. 1: Confucian Analects, translated by James Legge, 1861 · Analects 1.8.4, p. 5
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- Internet Archive (scan of the first edition, Hongkong: at the author's; London: Trubner & Co., 1861)
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From the Analects, Analects 1.8 (Book I, chapter VIII, paragraph 4), in James Legge's English translation (The Chinese Classics, vol. 1, Hongkong, 1861). Legge, not Confucius, chose the English words. The same words are repeated in Analects 9.24.