WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:49:10 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Li Yu – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Li Yu -- The Carnal Prayer Mat (c. AD 1657) https://wist.info/li-yu/2582/ https://wist.info/li-yu/2582/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=2582 People these days are reluctant to read the canonical texts, but they love fiction. Not all fiction, mind you, for they are sick of exemplary themes and far prefer the obscene and fantastic. How low contemporary morals have sunk! Anyone concerned about public morality will want to retrieve the situation.”


Li Yu (1610-1680) Chinese playwright, novelist, publisher
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