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47 Han characters · 33 distinct forms · 10 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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夫亂今然後反是：
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莊子 · 田子方第二十一知者不得仲尼聞之曰：「古之真人，知者不得說，美人不得濫，盜人不得刦，伏戲黃帝不得友。
荀子 · 富國篇第十下失地利是，則萬物失宜，事變失應，上失天時，下失地利，中失人和，天下敖然，若燒若焦。墨子雖為之衣褐帶索，嚽菽飲水，惡能足之乎？既以伐其本
荀子 · 堯問篇第三十二者不得慮當是時也，知者不得慮，能者不得治，賢者不得使，故君上蔽而無覩，賢人距而不受。然則孫卿懷將聖之心，蒙佯狂之
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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_018.txt, lines 665–674. XUN 18:7:4, Beida p.299; Knoblock 3:44
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