Confucius. Book 3, Chapter 17.
Book 3, Pa Yih.

1. Tsze-kung wished to do away with the offering of a sheep connected with the inauguration of the first day of each month.

2. The Master said, "Ts'ze, you love the sheep; I love the ceremony."

Text source: Lun Yu, The Confucian Analects. Translated by James Legge.

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