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故君子務脩其內而讓之於外，
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故君子務脩其內而讓之於外，Follow an explicit inference ↗故君子務脩其內而讓之於外，Track whose, which, and whose perspective ↗故君子務脩其內而讓之於外，Read the relationship between clauses ↗故君子務脩其內而讓之於外，Locate a relation ↗務積德於身而處之以遵遁；Identify means, basis, and purpose ↗Watch recurrence: 而 × 5 之 × 4 如 × 3 故 × 2 君 × 2 子 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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韓非子 · 十過第十聲聞于天，延頸而鳴，舒翼而舞。音中宮商之聲，聲聞于天。平公大說，坐者皆喜，
詩經 · 鶴鳴鶴鳴于九鶴鳴于九皋，聲聞于野。魚潛在淵，或在于渚。樂彼之園，爰有樹檀；其下維蘀。它山之石，可以為錯。
荀子 · 儒效篇第八天下應之通於四海，則天下應之如讙。是何也？則貴名白而天下治也。故近者歌謳而樂之，遠者竭蹶而趨之，四海之內若一家，
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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_008.txt, lines 382–396. XUN 8:5:3, Beida p. 96;Knoblock 2:74
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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.
- Teaching
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