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故操彌約而事彌大。
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故操彌約而事彌大。Follow an explicit inference ↗故君子不下室堂而海內之情舉積此者，Keep different negatives apart ↗故君子不下室堂而海內之情舉積此者，Name the one, thing, or situation ↗Watch recurrence: 之 × 3 故 × 2 操 × 2 彌 × 2 而 × 2 下 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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莊子 · 在宥第十一故君子不故君子不得已而臨莅天下，莫若无為。无為也而後安其性命之情。故貴以身於為天下，則可以託天下；
荀子 · 不苟篇第三則操術然，所聽視者近，而所聞見者遠。是何邪？則操術然也。故千人萬人之情，一人之情是也；
荀子 · 王霸篇第十一而海內之詳，事至佚而功，垂衣裳、不下簟席之上而海內之人莫不願得以為帝王。夫是之謂至約，樂莫大焉。
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- Work
- 荀子 · Xunzi
- Attribution
- Traditionally associated with Xun Kuang; the received collection contains multiple textual layers.
- Digital witness
- Kanseki Repository · KR3a0002 · base edition tls
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- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR3a0002_003.txt, lines 321–327. XUN 3:10:3,ed. Beida p. 33; Knoblock 1:179
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