古书上讲明代做过都察院长官的王廷相，在一次接见下级官员时说：我昨天乘轿进城遇雨。一个穿了双新鞋的轿夫，一开头很小心地循着干净的地方落脚，生怕脏了鞋；可后来一不小心踩在泥水里，从此便不复顾惜，什么地方都踩下去。“居身之道，每犹是耳，偿一失足，将无所不至矣！ Wang Tingxiang, an ancient capital procurator who made a statement on behalf of the Ming Dynasty, said in a meeting with a lower-level official: I rushed into the city yesterday to encounter the rain. A bearers wearing a pair of new shoes, the beginning is very careful to follow the clean place to settle for fear of dirty shoes; but then accidentally step in the muddy water, from then on no longer pampered, where to step on. "Living on the road, every Jew is the ear, pay a lost foot, will do everything!