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49 Han characters · 30 distinct forms · 9 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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故明主好要而闇主好詳。
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Watch recurrence: 主 × 4 好 × 4 詳 × 3 一 × 3 明 × 2 要 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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莊子 · 齊物論第二其盛者也策也，惠子之據梧也，三子之知幾乎，皆其盛者也，故載之末年。唯其好之也，以異於彼，其好之也，欲以明之。
荀子 · 臣道篇第十三故明主好故明主好同而闇主好獨，明主尚賢使能而饗其盛，闇主妬賢畏能而滅其功。罰其忠，賞其賊，夫是之謂至
荀子 · 樂論篇第二十其盛者也和之，怒而暴亂畏之。先王之道，禮樂正其盛者也，而墨子非之。故曰：墨子之於道也，猶瞽之於白黑也，猶聾之於清濁也，猶欲之楚而北求之也
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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_011.txt, lines 939–948. XUN 11:11:4, Beida p.183; Knoblock 2:166
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