"Confucius is like the Torah, rules to follow.……" — Christopher Moore
"Confucius is like the Torah, rules to follow. And Lao-Tzu is even more conservative, saying that if you do nothing you won't break any rules. You have to let tradition fall sometime, you have to take action, you have to eat bacon."
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Christopher Moore
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197 Quotes by Christopher Moore
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