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56 Han characters · 43 distinct forms · 11 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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「吾觀晉公子，
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老子 · 第二十六章萬乘之主，不離輜重。雖有榮觀，燕處超然。奈何萬乘之主而以身輕天下？輕則失本。躁則失君。
莊子 · 徐无鬼第二十四萬乘之主高不可以為長，居下不可以為短。君獨為萬乘之主，以苦一國之民，以養耳目鼻口，
莊子 · 漁父第三十一萬乘之主為役久矣，未嘗見夫子遇人如此其威也。萬乘之主，千乘之君，見夫子未嘗不分庭伉禮，夫子猶有倨敖之容。
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- Work
- 韓非子 · Hanfeizi
- Attribution
- Traditionally associated with Han Fei; authorship of individual chapters is not uniform or certain.
- Digital witness
- Kanseki Repository · KR3c0005 · base edition tls
- Contributors
- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR3c0005_010.txt, lines 1317–1327. HF 10.11:05; jiaoshi 6i1; jishi 200; jiaozhu 98; shiping 409
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55418cf95c05d3bcc35e26bb568cf0a8da957332- Reuse
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