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辛卯，上曰：「朕於戎、狄所以能取古人所不能取，臣古人所不能臣者，皆順眾人之所欲故也。昔禹帥九州之民，鑿山槎木，疏百川注之海，其勞甚矣，而民不怨者，因人之心，順地之勢，與民同利故也。」

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卷198·太宗文武大聖大廣孝皇帝下之上貞觀二十一年（丁未，公元六四七年）·第6则

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鷽花茂而山濃谷艶、縂是乾坤之幻境。 水木落而石痩崕枯、纔見天地之真吾。

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第225则

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************ Writers find it useful to picture the reader they seek, and often they are hoping to attract a mass audience. At Berkshire, we have a more limited target: investors who trust Berkshire with their savings without any expectation of resale (resembling in attitude people who save in order to buy a farm or rental property rather than people who prefer using their excess funds to purchase lottery tickets or “hot” stocks).

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2023 Chairman's Letter, excerpt 3

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One of the counsels of caution is to be very certain that we do not mistake a reactionary turn for a return of common sense. We have passed through a period of fireworks of every description, and the making of a great many idealistic maps of progress. We did not get anywhere. It was a convention, not a march. Lovely things were said, but when we got home we found the furnace out. Reactionaries have frequently taken advantage of the recoil from such a period, and they have promised "the good old times"--which usually means the bad old abuses--and because they are perfectly void of vision they are sometimes regarded as "practical men." Their return to power is often hailed as the return of common sense.

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Excerpt 5

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Our purpose is to construct and market an automobile specially designed for everyday wear and tear--business, professional, and family use; an automobile which will attain to a sufficient speed to satisfy the average person without acquiring any of those breakneck velocities which are so universally condemned; a machine which will be admired by man, woman, and child alike for its compactness, its simplicity, its safety, its all-around convenience, and--last but not least--its exceedingly reasonable price, which places it within the reach of many thousands who could not think of paying the comparatively fabulous prices asked for most machines.

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Chapter III, excerpt 34

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