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41 Han characters · 28 distinct forms · 8 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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君臣不得不尊，
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韓非子 · 外儲說右上第三十四臣不得不而食，焉得不馴乎？夫明主畜臣亦然，令臣不得不利君之祿，不得無服上之名。夫利君之祿，服上之名，焉得不服？
荀子 · 王制篇第九故天地生故天地生君子，君子理天地。君子者、天地之參也，萬物之總也，民之父母也。
荀子 · 富國篇第十父子不得，待之而後安；百姓之壽，待之而後長。父子不得不親，兄弟不得不順，男女不得不歡。少者以長，老者以養。
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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_027.txt, lines 388–395. XUN 27.31
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