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Old and die for a thief
  Explanation: Scold those old words no virtue.
  Source: "Analects": "Confucius said: 'Young Sun brother not long without reference Yan, old and die for the thief."
  Examples: As the saying goes ~. It is people like you! ★ per Anonymous "Bowls ghost" third fold
No. 2
  "The Analects of Confucius. Constitutional question, "" Once the original barbarian soil. The Master said, 'Brother Sun Young not long without reference Yan, old and die for the thief!' To knock the tibial rod. "Denounce the old post that no virtues of speech.
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No. 3
  "The Analects of Confucius asked the constitution": "Once the original barbarian soil. Confucius said: 'Brother Sun Young not long without reference Yan, old and die for the thief!' To knock the tibial rod." Denounce the old post that no virtue of the speech. Song Wen Tianxiang "Collection Du Huaixi Shuai order": "death to know the country, are based on Huaixi offered throughout the North for its own power Yan. So your 80 years than men, and 'old and die is to steal', its your The so-called Secular! "Yuan Ma Zhiyuan," Jian Fu Bei "fourth act:" You Drive Your old father, more disability, he is not a good, the saying goes: old and die for the thief. "also save as" old and die. " Qing Li Yu, "Xian Qing Ou Ji lyrics on the structure": "so little between the underlying movement, slightly hidden daggers, and the vocal creature wins the subscribed, is willing to allow regret in old and die, still have to walk back and forth from wantonly in the wild words of Lin Zai! "
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