Zhuangzi · 田子方第二十一
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57 Han characters · 35 distinct forms · 9 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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孫叔敖曰：
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「吾何以過人哉！Track speakers and addressees ↗「吾何以過人哉！Locate the unknown ↗吾以其來不可卻也，Keep different negatives apart ↗Watch recurrence: 以 × 4 其 × 4 吾 × 3 不 × 3 也 × 3 我 × 3. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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荀子 · 堯問篇第三十二孫叔敖曰語曰：「繒丘之封人見楚相孫叔敖曰：『吾聞之也：處官久者士妬之，祿厚者民怨之，位尊者君恨之。今相國有此三者而不得罪於楚
荀子 · 堯問篇第三十二孫叔敖曰孫叔敖曰：『吾三相楚而心瘉卑，每益祿而施瘉博，位滋尊而禮瘉恭，是以不得罪於楚之士民也。』」
莊子 · 馬蹄第九不可止也下之心，而民乃始踶跂好知，爭歸於利，不可止也。此亦聖人之過也。
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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_021.txt, lines 599–607. ZHUANG 21.10.2 Guo Qingfan 726; Wang Shumin 798; Fang Yong 578; Chen Guying 553
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