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A brush on a desk can tilt or lean. This is like a
person behaving improperly. To contain a brush
within a brush pot is like giving a traveller a home.
It is to constrain its wandering heart, to return it
to a state of moral purity.
Brush Pot: An Epigraph, Zhu Yizun
筆之在案，或側或頗，
猶人之無儀，筒以束之，
如客得家，閑彼放心，
歸於無邪。
– 朱彝尊《筆筒銘》
