Hanfeizi · 外儲說左上第三十二
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〓#齊桓公好服紫，
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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 1197–1207. HF 32.43:01; jiaoshi 508; jishi 655; shiping 1140; jiaozhu 394
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