See 狗彘不若 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"english": "A nursing sow will charge a tiger, and a bitch with pups does not wander far. This is for they do not neglect their kin. Yet mankind alone will below neglect his own safety, within neglect his family, and above neglect his lord. How is it that such a man is not even equal of a bitch and a sow!",
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"text": "乳彘觸虎，乳狗不遠遊，不忘其親也。人也，憂忘其身，內忘其親，上忘其君，則是人也，而曾狗彘之不若也。",
"translation": "A nursing sow will charge a tiger, and a bitch with pups does not wander far. This is for they do not neglect their kin. Yet mankind alone will below neglect his own safety, within neglect his family, and above neglect his lord. How is it that such a man is not even equal of a bitch and a sow!",
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"translation": "A nursing sow will charge a tiger, and a bitch with pups does not wander far. This is for they do not neglect their kin. Yet mankind alone will below neglect his own safety, within neglect his family, and above neglect his lord. How is it that such a man is not even equal of a bitch and a sow!",
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"text": "乳彘觸虎，乳狗不遠遊，不忘其親也。人也，憂忘其身，內忘其親，上忘其君，則是人也，而曾狗彘之不若也。",
"translation": "A nursing sow will charge a tiger, and a bitch with pups does not wander far. This is for they do not neglect their kin. Yet mankind alone will below neglect his own safety, within neglect his family, and above neglect his lord. How is it that such a man is not even equal of a bitch and a sow!",
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"translation": "A nursing sow will charge a tiger, and a bitch with pups does not wander far. This is for they do not neglect their kin. Yet mankind alone will below neglect his own safety, within neglect his family, and above neglect his lord. How is it that such a man is not even equal of a bitch and a sow!",
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