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Chinese people love compromise. If you say to them, "This room is too…

Quote byLu Xun · 1881–1936

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "The Epigrams of Lusin", 16.

English (original)

Chinese people love compromise. If you say to them, "This room is too dark, we must have a window made," they will all oppose you. But if you say, "Let's take off the roof," they will compromise with you and say "Let's have a window."

— Lu Xun

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