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性相近し、習い相遠し;性相近し習い相遠し[sK]
せいあいちかし、ならいあいとおし
[1][exp][proverb]
[note="from the Analects of Confucius"]
by human nature we are close, through practice we grow apart; by nature, near together\; by practice far apart