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When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice.

Ihara Saikaku

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Ihara Saikaku (Japanese: 井原西鶴; 1642–1693) was a Japanese poet and creator of the "floating world" genre of Japanese prose (ukiyo-zōshi).

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In life it is training rather than birth which counts.

To think twice in every matter and follow the lead of others is no way to make money.

Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.

When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice. - Ihara Saikaku

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