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Taka Posted 19 years ago
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0 01i00When I was a child, there was a good deal of adult conversation to the effect that children had to learn to be unselfish. 01font00It was a word 02font00that I came to dislike intensely because it always turned out to involve something I did not want to do and for the doing of which there were no visible rewards.02br
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00About '(it was) a word', is it02br
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00(1) the word 'unselfish' only.02br
00(2) the entire 'that children had to learn to be inselfish'02br
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0'01i00Unselfish02i00' only.0-
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0 Haven't we seen this before from you? 02br
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00 Only 1 makes sense to me. 02br
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00 They do 01b00not 02b00say "it was a proverb/saying/precept."0-
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0 Good! The same interpretation as mine. Thank you both!01blockquote
01cite10Marius Hancu12cite10Haven't we seen this before from you? 12blockquote
10Yep. The same sentences, a different question.0-

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