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44 Han characters · 32 distinct forms · 8 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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弟佗其冠，
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論語 · 堯曰篇第二十正其衣冠小大，無敢慢，斯不亦泰而不驕乎？君子正其衣冠，尊其瞻視，儼然人望而畏之，斯不亦威而不猛乎？」
莊子 · 田子方第二十一終日不言子方出，文侯儻然終日不言，召前立臣而語之曰：「遠矣，全德之君子！
荀子 · 非十二子篇第六氏之賤儒恥而耆飲食，必曰君子固不用力，是子游氏之賤儒也。彼君子則不然，佚而不惰，勞而不僈，宗原應變，曲得其宜，如是，然後聖人也。
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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_006.txt, lines 419–425. XUN 6:13:5, Beida p. 75; Knoblock 1:229
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- Teaching
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