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かっしてもとうせんのみずをのまず

渇しても盗泉の水を飲まず

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    better starve than fatten on ill-gotten wealth; don't lower yourself to unjust acts, no matter how desperate you are; refraining to drink from a spring called Robber's Spring even if thirsty

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