A club hurts the flesh, but evil words hurt the bone. -Traditional Chinese Proverb — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
A club hurts the flesh, but evil words hurt the bone. -Traditional Chinese Proverb — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
A club hurts the flesh, but evil words hurt the bone. -Traditional Chinese Proverb — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
A club hurts the flesh, but evil words hurt the bone. -Traditional Chinese Proverb — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
A club hurts the flesh, but evil words hurt the bone. -Traditional Chinese Proverb — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
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A club hurts the flesh, but evil words hurt the bone. -Traditional Chinese Proverb

— Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
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