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59 Han characters · 39 distinct forms · 10 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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輿固馬選矣，
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韓非子 · 忠孝第五十一而不能以，治官職，以戴其君者也。今堯自以為明而不能以畜舜，舜自以為賢而不能以戴堯，湯、武自以為義而弒其君長，此明君且常與，而賢臣且常取也
詩經 · 猗嗟而不能以人傷魯莊公有威儀技藝，然而不能以禮防閑其母，失子之道，人以為齊侯之子焉。
韓非子 · 姦劫弒臣第十四百里之地湯得伊尹，以百里之地立為天子；桓公得管仲，立為五霸主，九合諸侯，一匡天下；孝公得商君，地以廣，兵以強。
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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 631–640. XUN 8:8:2, Beida p. 103; Knoblock 2:78
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- Teaching
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