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71 Han characters · 40 distinct forms · 14 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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「我善治埴，
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韓非子 · 五蠹第四十九者之過也術也。舍必不亡之術而道必滅之事，治國者之過也。智困於外而政亂於內，則亡不可振也。
荀子 · 彊國篇第十六天下者之夫桀、紂，聖王之後子孫也，有天下者之世也，埶籍之所存，天下之宗室也，土地之大，封內千里，人之眾數以億萬，俄而天下倜然舉去
荀子 · 賦篇第二十六方者中矩則周靜致下，動則綦高以鉅。員者中規，方者中矩。大參天地，德厚堯、禹？精微乎毫毛而充盈乎大㝢（宙）。忽兮其極之遠也，攭兮其相逐而反
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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_009.txt, lines 53–66. ZHUANG 9.1.4 Guo Qingfan 330; Wang Shumin 329; Fang Yong 248; Chen Guying 244
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