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Tao Qian (365–427) was a pre-Tang Dynasty poet who preferred la vie boheme over any kind of work period. Working as a magistrate in the imperial court by necessity, his philosophy towards life was cemented when he refused to prostrate himself before a superior. He summed up this moment succinctly with the line:
“I shall not break my back for five bushels of grain.”
Tao Qian, world’s first slacker, we salute you!
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