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則百姓不安其處、不樂其鄉，
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則百姓不安其處、不樂其鄉，Follow a condition and its consequence ↗則百姓不安其處、不樂其鄉，Keep different negatives apart ↗則百姓不安其處、不樂其鄉，Locate the unknown ↗則百姓不安其處、不樂其鄉，Track whose, which, and whose perspective ↗故禮樂廢而邪音起者，Follow an explicit inference ↗故禮樂廢而邪音起者，Read the relationship between clauses ↗Watch recurrence: 不 × 4 其 × 4 樂 × 3 邪 × 3 音 × 3 也 × 3. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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韓非子 · 有度第六故先王貴故先王貴之而傳之。人主釋法用私，則上下不別矣。
荀子 · 王制篇第九使夷俗邪。脩憲命，審詩商，禁淫聲，以時順脩，使夷俗邪音不敢亂雅，大師之事也。
荀子 · 樂論篇第二十不安其處如是，則百姓莫不安其處、樂其鄉，以至足其上矣。然後名聲於是白，光暉於是大；四海之民莫不願得以為師。是王者之
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- Work
- 荀子 · Xunzi
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- Traditionally associated with Xun Kuang; the received collection contains multiple textual layers.
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- Kanseki Repository · KR3a0002 · base edition tls
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- KR3a0002_020.txt, lines 138–152. XUN 20:2:4, Beida p.335; Knoblock 3:i2
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