There is a word difference between the famous sentence you quoted and the original one.

Wang Fu, a great scholar in the Han Dynasty, has a saying in The Theory of Latent Husband:

"Night room seekers are not good at fire; The ropeway is in the world and Mo Liang is in the code. " There is nothing better than fire to find things at night; There is nothing better than classics to seek the right path on earth.

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