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61 Han characters · 43 distinct forms · 10 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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然而求卿相輔佐，
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則獨不若是其公也，Keep different negatives apart ↗則獨不若是其公也，Build a conditional reading ↗案唯便嬖親比己者之用也，Name the one, thing, or situation ↗Watch recurrence: 不 × 5 則 × 4 矣 × 4 莫 × 3 欲 × 3 俄 × 3. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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荀子 · 儒效篇第八莫不欲安凡人莫不欲安榮而惡危辱，故唯君子為能得其所好，小人則日徼其所惡。《詩》曰：「維此良人，弗求弗迪；
荀子 · 君道篇第十二故有社稷、民之原也，源清則流清，源濁則流濁。故有社稷者而不能愛民、不能利民，而求民之親愛己，不可得也。
荀子 · 君道篇第十二莫不欲彊為人主者，莫不欲彊而惡弱，欲安而惡危，欲榮而惡辱，是禹、桀之所同也。要此三欲，辟此三惡，果何道而便？
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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 698–708. XUN 12:9:4, Beida p.204; Knoblock 2:187
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