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But the monopoly of the colony trade, so far as it has operated upon the employment of the capital of Great Britain, has, in all cases, forced some part of it from a foreign trade of consumption carried on with a neighbouring, to one carried on with a more distant country, and in many cases from a direct foreign trade of consumption to a round-about one.

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Book IV, Chapter VII, paragraph 1416

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心體便是天體，一念之喜，景星慶雲；一念之怒，震雷暴雨；一念之慈，和風甘露；一念之嚴，烈日秋霜；何者所感，只要隨起隨滅，廓然無礙，便與太虛同體。

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第172则

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御史曰：「夏後氏不倍言，殷誓，周盟，德信彌衰。無文、武之人，欲修其法，此殷、周之所以失勢，而見奪於諸侯也。故衣弊而革才，法弊而更制。高皇帝時，天下初定，發德音，行一切之令，權也，非撥亂反正之常也。其後，法稍犯，不正於理。故奸萌而甫刑作，王道衰而詩刺彰，諸侯暴而春秋譏。夫少目之網不可以得魚，三章之法不可以為治。故令不得不加，法不得不多。唐、虞畫衣冠非阿，湯、武刻肌膚非故，時世不同，輕重之務異也。」

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卷10·詔聖第五十八·第1则

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載營魄抱一，能無離乎？ 專氣致柔，能嬰兒乎？ 滌除玄覽，能無疵乎？ 愛國治民，能無知乎？ 天門開闔，能為雌乎？ 明白四達，能無為乎？ 生之， 畜之。 生而不有，為而不恃，長而不宰，是謂玄德。

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王弼本·十章

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In my early days men acted just as they do now, no doubt. When there was anything to be done for general trade betterment, almost every man had some good reason for believing that his case was a special one different from all the rest. For every foolish thing he did, or wanted to do, for every unbusiness-like plan he had, he always pleaded that it was necessary in his case. He was the one man who had to sell at less than cost, to disrupt all the business plans of others in his trade, because his individual position was so absolutely different from all the rest. It was often a heart-breaking undertaking to convince those men that the perfect occasion which would lead to the perfect opportunity would never come, even if they waited until the crack o' doom.

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Chapter III, excerpt 68

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