Once Confucius was walking on the mountains and he came across a woman weeping by a grave. He asked the woman what here sorrow was, and she replied, We are a family of hunters. My father was eaten by a tiger. My husband was bitten by a tiger and died. And now my only son! Why don't you move down and live in the valley? Why do you continue to live up here? asked Confucius. And the woman replied, But sir, there are no tax collectors here! Confucius added to his disciples, You see, a bad government is more to be feared than tigers.
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There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight.
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss.
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors, and miss.
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Matthew 9:11:
When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, 'Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?'
(NIV)
And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to His disciples, Why does your Master eat with tax collectors and those [preeminently] sinful?
(AMP)
And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?
(KJV)
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Luke 15:1:
Now the tax collectors and sinners were all gathering around to hear Jesus.
(NIV)
NOW THE tax collectors and [notorious and especially wicked] sinners were all coming near to [Jesus] to listen to Him.
(AMP)
Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.
(KJV)
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