Hanfeizi · 難一第三十六

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難一第三十六 · 2450 characters
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50 Han characters · 41 distinct forms · 12 units separated by the witness’s punctuation

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莊子 · 徐无鬼第二十四管仲有病

管仲有病,桓公往問之,曰:「仲父之病病矣,不可諱云,至於大病,則寡人惡乎屬國而可?」

韓非子 · 十過第十衛公子開

公曰:「然則衛公子開方何如?」管仲曰:「不可。齊、衛之間不過十日之行,開方為事君,欲適君之故,十五年不歸

韓非子 · 十過第十衛公子開

蒞事三年,桓公南遊堂阜,豎刁率易牙、衛公子開方及大臣為亂。桓公渴餒而死南門之寢,公守之室,身死三月不收,蟲出于戶。

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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_036.txt, lines 290–301. HF 36.05:01 [5]; jiaoshi 319; jishi 800; shiping 1361; jiaozhu 501; m423;Liao 2.144
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