Hanfeizi · 內儲說上七術第三十
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「南門之外，
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有黃犢食苗道左者。」Name the one, thing, or situation ↗「毋敢洩吾所問於女。」Recognize a negative directive ↗「毋敢洩吾所問於女。」Track speakers and addressees ↗「毋敢洩吾所問於女。」Focus on what an action concerns ↗「毋敢洩吾所問於女。」Locate a relation ↗Watch recurrence: 曰 × 2 有 × 2 苗 × 2 者 × 2 令 × 2 牛 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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韓非子 · 內儲說上七術第三十吾所問於可以行耳。」太宰因誡使者：「無敢告人吾所問於女。」因召市吏而誚之曰：「市門之外何多牛屎？」市吏甚怪太宰知之疾也，乃悚懼其所也。
韓非子 · 說林下第二十三南門之外丈人曰：「可。吾方廬陳南門之外。」公子曰：「是何也？」曰：「我笑勾踐也。為人之如是其易也，己獨何為密密十年難乎？」
韓非子 · 內儲說上七術第三十南門之外一車轅於北門之外而令之曰：「有能徙此南門之外者，賜之上田、上宅。」
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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
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- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
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- KR3c0005_030.txt, lines 1297–1306. HF 30.48:02; jishi 565; jiaozhu 331; shiping 979
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