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52 Han characters · 36 distinct forms · 7 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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論德而定次，
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皆使（其）人載其事而各得其所宜。Notice a change in argument structure ↗皆使（其）人載其事而各得其所宜。Track whose, which, and whose perspective ↗皆使（其）人載其事而各得其所宜。Focus on what an action concerns ↗Watch recurrence: 使 × 4 之 × 4 而 × 3 其 × 3 賢 × 3 為 × 3. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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老子 · 第六十一章各得其所欲兼畜人，小邦者不過欲入事人。夫兩者各得其所欲，則大者宜為下。
論語 · 子罕篇第九各得其所吾自衛反魯，然後樂正，《雅》、《頌》各得其所。」
荀子 · 榮辱篇第四人載其事，長幼之差，知賢愚、能不能之分，皆使人載其事而各得其宜，然後使穀祿多少厚薄之稱，是夫群居和一之道也。
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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_012.txt, lines 431–438. XUN 12:6:5, Beida p.198; Knoblock 2:182
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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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