Xiàng tā zhèyàng décáijiānbèi de rén fèngmáolínjiǎo.
People like him, with both virtue and talent, are extremely rare.
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history
The two halves come from different sources: 凤毛 from 《世说新语·容止》 (Liu Yiqing, Southern Dynasties), praising a son as having his father's 'phoenix feathers'; 麟角 from 《北史·文苑传序》: 学者如牛毛，成者如麟角 - 'students are as many as ox hairs, but those who succeed as rare as unicorn horns.'
memory
Phoenixes and qilin are both mythical beasts - literally 'phoenix feathers + qilin horns', the rarest parts of the rarest creatures.
