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188 Han characters · 124 distinct forms · 26 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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故說豫娩澤，
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是吉凶憂愉之情發於顏色者也。Locate a relation ↗是吉凶憂愉之情發於顏色者也。Name the one, thing, or situation ↗使本末終始莫不順比純備，Notice a change in argument structure ↗Watch recurrence: 之 × 16 憂 × 6 是 × 6 情 × 6 者 × 6 也 × 6. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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荀子 · 榮辱篇第四為之君子矣，其溫厚矣，其功盛姚遠矣，非順孰脩為之君子，莫之能知也。
荀子 · 禮論篇第十九終始莫不送死謂之賊。大象其生以送其死，使死生終始莫不稱宜而好善，是禮義之法式也，儒者是矣。
荀子 · 樂論篇第二十發於聲音情之所必不免也，故人不能無樂。樂則必發於聲音，形於動靜，而人之道。聲音、動靜、生術之變盡於是矣。故人不能不樂，樂則不能無形，形而
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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_019.txt, lines 583–624. XUN 19:5b:5; Beida p.320;Knoblock 3:66
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