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63 Han characters · 33 distinct forms · 10 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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足可以徧行天下，
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然而未嘗有能徧行天下者也。Read the relationship between clauses ↗然而未嘗有能徧行天下者也。Keep different negatives apart ↗然而未嘗有能徧行天下者也。Name the one, thing, or situation ↗未嘗不可以相為事也，Keep different negatives apart ↗Watch recurrence: 可 × 4 以 × 4 未 × 4 能 × 4 也 × 4 為 × 4. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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韓非子 · 難二第三十七行天下者夫不奪子而行天下者，必不背死君而事其讎；背死君而事其讎者，必不難奪子而行天下；不難奪子而行天下者，必不
孟子 · 離婁下而未嘗有酒肉而後反；問其與飲食者，盡富貴也，而未嘗有顯者來，吾將瞷良人之所之也。」
孟子 · 告子上則可以為孟子曰：「乃若其情，則可以為善矣，乃所謂善也。若夫為不善，非才之罪也。
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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_023.txt, lines 618–627. XUN 23.15.04; 23:5b, Knoblock 3:159
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