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萬章問曰：
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『百里奚自鬻於秦養牲者五羊之皮食牛以要秦繆公。』Locate a relation ↗『百里奚自鬻於秦養牲者五羊之皮食牛以要秦繆公。』Name the one, thing, or situation ↗『百里奚自鬻於秦養牲者五羊之皮食牛以要秦繆公。』Recover the object ↗ Connect a modifier to a head ↗ Put a clause inside a larger sentence ↗『百里奚自鬻於秦養牲者五羊之皮食牛以要秦繆公。』Identify means, basis, and purpose ↗Watch recurrence: 曰 × 3 秦 × 2 者 × 2 之 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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韓非子 · 難二第三十七百里奚自人，何索人為勞哉？伊尹自以為宰干湯，百里奚自以為虜干穆公。虜，所辱也；宰，所羞也。
莊子 · 庚桑楚第二十三五羊之皮无所逃。是故湯以庖人籠伊尹，秦穆公以五羊之皮籠百里奚。是故非以其所好籠之而可得者，无有也。
孟子 · 萬章上好事者為環，有諸乎？」孟子曰：「否，不然也；好事者為之也。
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- Work
- 孟子 · Mencius
- Attribution
- Traditionally associated with Meng Ke (Mencius) and his followers.
- Digital witness
- Kanseki Repository · KR1h0001 · base edition tls
- Contributors
- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR1h0001_009.txt, lines 745–755. MENG 5A09:01; tr. D. C. Lau 2.197
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- Source spelling and punctuation retained. Encoding headers, page markers, paragraph markers, whitespace, and leading section numbers are removed from the reading view. No silent script conversion or textual correction.
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