Zhang Zhupo 張竹坡
1690s · Qing China
With this remark, uncle, you have put yourself right in the Palace of the Moon, looking down on the whole wide world, and all of it is clear light like water.
吾叔此論，直置身廣寒宮裏，下視大千世界，皆清光似水矣。A comment attached to this passage in Dream Shadows
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Zhang Chao 張潮
1690s · Qing China
Reading in youth is like peeping at the moon through a crack. Reading in middle age is like looking at the moon from the courtyard. Reading in old age is like enjoying the moon from a terrace. How deep the gain goes depends only on how deep one's experience has gone.
少年讀書，如隙中窺月；中年讀書，如庭中望月；老年讀書，如臺上玩月。皆以閱歷之淺深，爲所得之淺深耳。Dream Shadows (Youmengying)
Huang Jiaosan 黃交三
1690s · Qing China
Here is someone who truly knows where reading aches and where it itches.
真能知讀書痛癢者也。A comment attached to this passage in Dream Shadows
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