Hanfeizi · 外儲說左上第三十二
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夫嬰兒相與戲也，
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然至日晚必歸饟者，Name the one, thing, or situation ↗塵飯塗羹可以戲而不可食也。Read the relationship between clauses ↗塵飯塗羹可以戲而不可食也。Keep different negatives apart ↗Watch recurrence: 以 × 4 為 × 3 戲 × 2 也 × 2 塵 × 2 飯 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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荀子 · 儒效篇第八不可食也之富矣。彼寶也者，衣之不可衣也，食之不可食也，賣之不可僂售也，然而人謂之富，何也？豈不大富之器誠在此也？是杅杅亦富人已，豈不貧而
韓非子 · 外儲說左上第三十二可以戲而而不愨，道先王仁義而不能正國者，此亦可以戲而不可以為治也。夫慕仁義而弱亂者，三晉也。
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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.
- Source position
- KR3c0005_032.txt, lines 722–728. HF 32.21:01; jiaoshi 493; jishi 638; jiaozhu 380; shiping 1107
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