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4.Foolish dictum: In a team, a valuable team player must aspire to be leader.
6.Let us here only call to mind the remarkable dictum of Adam Smith on the English Navigation Laws.(3*)
7.Yet Kissinger succeeded in defying an old Washington dictum that you can have in the capital visibility or influence,but not both.

8.In its love for genuine feelings, the School of Self-Expression has a natural contempt for decorativeness of style. Hence it always stands for the pure and mild flavor in writing. It accepts the dictum of Men-cius that "the sole goal of writing is expressiveness.
9.The language used is simple and unadorned and yet able to bring out the deeply felt sentiments. Father loved the poems of Bai Juyi and was fond of following the dictum of the poet who said, "There is no such thing as the correct sound (in composition). Whatever that pleases the ear, that then is the right sound.

