Zhuangzi · 人間世第四
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72 Han characters · 52 distinct forms · 11 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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吾食也執粗而不臧，
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吾食也執粗而不臧，Track speakers and addressees ↗吾食也執粗而不臧，Keep different negatives apart ↗吾未至乎事之情，Keep different negatives apart ↗Watch recurrence: 之 × 5 吾 × 3 而 × 3 不 × 3 人 × 3 有 × 3. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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荀子 · 彊國篇第十六人臣者不引其足也；說必不行矣，俞務而俞遠。為人臣者不恤己行之不行，苟富利而已矣，是渠衝入穴而求利也，是仁人之所羞而不為也。
韓非子 · 外儲說右上第三十四者不足以所以使其臣民者，非爵祿則刑罰也。今四者不足以使之，則望當誰為君乎？不服兵革而顯，不親耕耨而名，又非所以教於國也。
孟子 · 離婁下者不足以孟子曰：「養生者不足以當大事，惟送死可以當大事。」
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- Work
- 莊子 · Zhuangzi
- Attribution
- Traditionally associated with Zhuang Zhou; the received collection includes multiple voices and layers.
- Digital witness
- Kanseki Repository · KR5c0126 · base edition CHANT
- Contributors
- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR5c0126_004.txt, lines 350–361. ZHUANG 4.2.3; Guo Qingfan 153; Wang Shumin 136; Fang Yong 122; Chen Guying 123
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