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葉公子高微小短瘠，
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行若將不勝其衣。Build a conditional reading ↗行若將不勝其衣。Keep different negatives apart ↗令尹子西、司馬子期皆死焉；Resolve “there”, “in this”, or a final particle ↗仁義功名善於後世。Locate a relation ↗Watch recurrence: 公 × 4 子 × 4 葉 × 2 高 × 2 白 × 2 楚 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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韓非子 · 難言第三司馬子期萇弘分胣；尹子穽於棘；司馬子期死而浮於江；田明辜射；宓子賤、西門豹不鬭而死人手；董安于死而陳於市；宰予不免於田常；
韓非子 · 內儲說上七術第三十白公之亂王曰：「有之。」「然則若白公之亂，得無危乎？誠得如此，臣免死罪矣。」
韓非子 · 難二第三十七公之亂也也。為湯、武有桀、紂之危；為田常有簡公之亂也。
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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
- Contributors
- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR3a0002_005.txt, lines 73–84. XUN 5:1:6, ed. Beida p. 52; Knoblock 1:204
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