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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》
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