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The Master said:

Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous.

Confucius, Lúnyŭ (Analects), ii. 15

The basic pattern of the history of the Chinese language is very similar to that of Egyptian, the maintenance of unity and linguistic stability despite repeated alien influxes.