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是何言也？
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是何言也？Locate the unknown ↗夫君子豈多而賤之、少而貴之哉！Read the relationship between clauses ↗夫玉者、君子比德焉，Name the one, thing, or situation ↗Watch recurrence: 而 × 4 子 × 3 也 × 3 夫 × 2 君 × 2 之 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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孟子 · 公孫丑上是何言也曰：「惡！是何言也？昔者子貢問於孔子曰：『夫子聖矣乎？』孔子曰：『聖則吾不能，我學不厭而教不倦也。』
孟子 · 公孫丑上是何言也且智，夫子既聖矣。』夫聖、孔子不居，是何言也？」
孟子 · 公孫丑下是何言也曰：「惡！是何言也！齊人無以仁義與王言者，豈以仁義為不美也？其心曰：『是何足與言仁義也』云爾，則不敬莫
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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
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- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR3a0002_030.txt, lines 70–81. XUN 30:4:2, Beida 493, Knoblock 3:257
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