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百工忠信而不楛，
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百工忠信而不楛，Keep different negatives apart ↗則器用巧便而財不匱矣。Follow a condition and its consequence ↗則器用巧便而財不匱矣。Hear explanation and a changed situation ↗此儒之所謂曲辨也。Focus on what an action concerns ↗Watch recurrence: 則 × 6 不 × 5 而 × 4 百 × 2 失 × 2 之 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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韓非子 · 安危第二十五則上不失子胥，是幸殷人之盡如比干。盡如比干，則上不失，下不亡。
韓非子 · 外儲說左上第三十二不失天時群臣守職，善惡不踰，百事不怠；信事則不失天時，百姓不踰；信義則近親勸勉，而遠者歸之矣。」
韓非子 · 解老第二十以守則固器械則城堅固。故曰：「慈，於戰則勝，以守則固。」
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- Work
- 荀子 · Xunzi
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- Digital witness
- Kanseki Repository · KR3a0002 · base edition tls
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- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
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- KR3a0002_011.txt, lines 1131–1144. XUN 11:13b:4. Beida p.187; Knoblock 2:170
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