Learning to keep forging ahead and work hard is like sailing against the current. If you don't work hard, you can only go backwards.
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Gui Zhi: Zuo Si, the author of Sandu Fu, was not clever when he was young. He studied calligraphy, music and the art of war. Nothing has been realized. Later, he made up his mind to study hard and write well, and spent decades writing Sandu Fu. Luoyang people rushed to buy papermaking, which made the supply of paper in Beijing in short supply at that time, and was called "Luoyang paper is expensive".