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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》