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29 Han characters · 21 distinct forms · 7 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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不知而問堯、舜，
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Watch recurrence: 而 × 2 堯 × 2 舜 × 2 天 × 2 府 × 2 之 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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韓非子 · 外儲說左上第三十二先王之道墨子之說，傳先王之道，論聖人之言以宣告人。若辯其辭，則恐人懷其文忘其直，以文害用也。此與楚人鬻珠，秦伯嫁
韓非子 · 五蠹第四十九先王之道是故亂國之俗，其學者則稱先王之道以籍介義，盛容服而飾辯說，以疑當世之法，而貳人主之心。其言談者，為設詐稱，借於外力，
韓非子 · 顯學第五十先王之道議說，世主必從而禮之，曰：「敬賢士，先王之道也。」
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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_027.txt, lines 847–853. XUN 27:73, Beida 459, Knoblock 3:225
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- Text policy
- Source spelling and punctuation retained. Encoding headers, page markers, paragraph markers, whitespace, and leading section numbers are removed from the reading view. No silent script conversion or textual correction.
- Teaching
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