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子曰：「道聽而塗說，德之棄也。」

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陽貨第十七·十七之十四

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孔子曰：「益者三友，損者三友：友直，友諒，友多聞，益矣；友便辟，友善柔，友便佞，損矣。」

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季氏第十六·十六之四

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When paper is substituted in the room of gold and silver money, the quantity of the materials, tools, and maintenance, which the whole circulating capital can supply, may be increased by the whole value of gold and silver which used to be employed in purchasing them. The whole value of the great wheel of circulation and distribution is added to the goods which are circulated and distributed by means of it. The operation, in some measure, resembles that of the undertaker of some great work, who, in consequence of some improvement in mechanics, takes down his old machinery, and adds the difference between its price and that of the new to his circulating capital, to the fund from which he furnishes materials and wages to his workmen.

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Book II, Chapter II, paragraph 747

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乙酉，詔廢太子承乾為庶人，幽於右領軍府。上欲免漢王元昌死，群臣固爭，乃賜自盡於家，而宥其母、妻、子。侯君集、李安儼、趙節、杜荷等皆伏誅。左庶子張玄素、右庶子趙弘智、令狐德棻等以不能諫爭，皆坐免為庶人。餘當連坐者，悉赦之。詹事於志寧以數諫，獨蒙勞勉。以紇干承基為祐川府折衝都尉，爵平棘縣公。

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卷197·太宗文武大聖大廣孝皇帝中之下貞觀十七年（癸卯，公元六四三年）·第2则

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My methods of attending to business matters differed from those of most well-conducted merchants of my time and allowed me more freedom. Even after the chief affairs of the Standard Oil Company were moved to New York, I spent most of my summers at our home in Cleveland, and I do still. I would come to New York when my presence seemed necessary, but for the most part I kept in touch with the business through our own telegraph wires, and was left free to attend to many things which interested me--among others, the making of paths, the planting of trees, and the setting out of little forests of seedlings.

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Chapter I, excerpt 25

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