Hanfeizi · 外儲說左上第三十二
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墨子為木鳶，
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「吾不如為車輗者巧也。Track speakers and addressees ↗「吾不如為車輗者巧也。Keep different negatives apart ↗「吾不如為車輗者巧也。Name the one, thing, or situation ↗Watch recurrence: 子 × 3 墨 × 2 為 × 2 木 × 2 鳶 × 2 而 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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韓非子 · 外儲說左上第三十二墨子為木其說在田鳩對荊王也。故墨子為木鳶，謳癸築武宮。夫藥酒忠言，明君聖主之以獨知也。
韓非子 · 外儲說左上第三十二蜚一日而遠力多，久於歲數。今我為鳶，三年成，蜚一日而敗。」
韓非子 · 喻老第二十一三年而成宋人有為其君以象為楮葉者，三年而成。豐殺莖柯，毫芒繁澤，亂之楮葉之中而不可別也。此人遂以功食祿於宋邦。
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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_032.txt, lines 289–296. HF 32.09:01; jiaoshi 480; jishi 625; jiaozhu 369; shiping 10i2
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