I wrung the promise of that bill from His Majesty whilst he was still a throneless wanderer.
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I wrung the promise of that bill from His Majesty whilst he was still a throneless wanderer.
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2003, Edward Slingerland, Confucius Analects, with selections from traditional commentaries, Indianapolis: Hackett, p. 230, In later myth, Confucius is often referred to as the "throneless ruler," the idea being that, if only he had been given a position of authority, he would have re-established the universal peace and order of the early Zhou.
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