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We can engage in a true conversation only when we meet our intimate friends and are prepared to unburden our hearts to each other. One of them has put his feet on a neighboring table, another is sitting on a window sill, and still another is sitting on the floor, upholstered by a cushion which he has snatched from the sofa, thus leaving one-third of the sofa seat uncovered. For it is only when your hands and feet are relaxed and the position of your body is at ease that your heart can be at ease also. It is then that: Before my face are friends who know my heart, And at my side are none who hurt my eyes. This is the absolutely necessary condition of all conversation worthy of the name of an art. And since we dp not care what we are talking about, the conversation will drift further and furgarden flags,garden flag,garden flags wholesale,wholesale garden flagsther, without order and without method, and the company break- up, happy of heart. 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All of them had thousands of scholarly guests at their homes, as for instance Mengch'ang of Ch'i Kingdom who was reputed to have three thousand scholars, or "guests" wearing "pearled shoes, " being "fed' at his home. One can imagine the conversational hubbub that was going on in those houses. The content of the conversation of scholars of those days is today reflected in the books of Liehtse , Huainantse, Chankuots'eh and Lilian. It is noteworthy that with respect to the last one, which was a book admittedly written by Lu's guests but published in his name (#( in a sense similar to the " patrons" of English sixteenth-century and seventeenth-century agarden flags,garden flag,garden flags wholesale,wholesale garden flagsuthors )#), there was already developed the idea of the art of living well, in the formula that it would be better to live well or not at all. 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C., toward the end of this period, may be seen in the record of how a certain scholar by the name of Li Yuan succeeded in presenting his accomplished sister to the court of a rich patron in the Kingdom of Ch'u. The patron in turn secured the favor of the King for this girl, which was eventually responsible for the destruction of the Kingdom of Ch'u by the conquering army of the First Emperor of Ch'in, who united the Chinese Empire. Formerly there was Li garden flags,garden flag,garden flags wholesale,wholesale garden flagsYuan, serving as a subordinate of Prince Ch'unshen, the Prime Minister of the King of Ch'u. Li had a sister by the name of Nuhuan who spoke to him one day,I hear that the King is without an heir. If you will present me to the Prime Minister, through him I will be able to see the King. ""But the Prime Minister is a high official", replied her brother. "How dare I mention it to him?" 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And Li replied, "I have a sister, and the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Lu has heard of her reputation and has sent a delegate to ask for her." "May I see her ?" asked the Prime Minister. " Ask her to come and meet me at the Li Pavilion."" Yes sir, " replied Li, and he returned and told his sgarden flags,garden flag,garden flags wholesale,wholesale garden flagsister that the Prime Minister expected to see her the next evening at the Li Pavilion. "You must go there yourself first in order to be there when I arrive, " said the girl. The Prime Minister then arrived at the time and asked to see Niihuan. She was presented and they drank a great deal. Niihuan played on the ch 'in, and before her song was finished, the Prime Minister was greatly pleased and asked her to stay there for the night. . . . This then, was the social background of cultivated ladies and leisurely scholars, which produced for us the first important development of prose in China. 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