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A ruler who lets people die of famine and blames the bad year is like a killer who blames the weapon
Drawn from what Mencius said
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- Mencius Confucian philosopher of the fourth century BCE
When men die, you say, 'It is not owing to me; it is owing to the year,' In what does this differ from stabbing a man and killing him, and then saying, 'It was not I; it was the weapon'?
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