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冬，十月，雇雍州四萬一千人築長安外郭，三旬而畢。癸丑，雍州參軍薛景宣上封事，言：「漢惠帝城長安，尋晏駕；今復城之，必有大咎。」於志寧等以景宣言涉不順，請誅之。上曰：「景宣雖狂妄，若因上封事得罪，恐絕言路。」遂赦之。

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卷199·太宗文武大聖大廣孝皇帝下之下永徽五年（甲寅，公元六五四年）·第14则

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說「致良知」，即當下便有實地步可用工。故區區專說「致良知」，隨時就事上致其良知，便是「格物」；著實去致良知，便是「誠意」；著實致其良知，而無一毫「意」、「必」、「固」、「我」，便是「正心」。著實「致良知」，則自無「忘」之病；無一毫「意」、「必」、「固」、「我」，則自無「助」之病。故說「格、致、誠、正」，則不必更說個「忘、助」。孟子說「忘」、「助」，亦就告子得病處立方。告子強制其心，是「助」的病痛，故孟子專說助長之害。告子助長，亦是他以義為外，不知就自心上「集義」，在「必有事焉」上用功，是以如此。若時時刻刻就自心上「集義」，則良知之體洞然明白，自然是是非非纖毫莫遁，又焉有「不得於言，勿求於心；不得於心，勿求於氣」之弊乎？孟子「集義」、「養氣」之說，固大有功於後學，然亦是因病立方，說得大段；不若《大學》「格、致、誠、正」之功，尤極精一簡易，為徹上徹下，萬世無弊者也。

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卷中·第187条

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「古者，庶人麁菲草芰，縮絲尚韋而已。及其後，則綦下不借，挽鞮革舄。今富者革中名工，輕靡使容，紈裏紃下，越端縱緣。中者鄧裏閑作蒯苴。蠢豎婢妾，韋沓絲履。走者茸芰絇綰。

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卷6·散不足第二十九·第36则

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We had been through an experimenting period of five years. The cars were beginning to be sold in Europe. The business, as an automobile business then went, was considered extraordinarily prosperous. We had plenty of money. Since the first year we have practically always had plenty of money. We sold for cash, we did not borrow money, and we sold directly to the purchaser. We had no bad debts and we kept within ourselves on every move. I have always kept well within my resources. I have never found it necessary to strain them, because, inevitably, if you give attention to work and service, the resources will increase more rapidly than you can devise ways and means of disposing of them.

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Chapter III, excerpt 38

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On my own farm at Dearborn we do everything by machinery. We have eliminated a great number of wastes, but we have not as yet touched on real economy. We have not yet been able to put in five or ten years of intense night-and-day study to discover what really ought to be done. We have left more undone than we have done. Yet at no time--no matter what the value of crops--have we failed to turn a first-class profit. We are not farmers--we are industrialists on the farm. The moment the farmer considers himself as an industrialist, with a horror of waste either in material or in men, then we are going to have farm products so low-priced that all will have enough to eat, and the profits will be so satisfactory that farming will be considered as among the least hazardous and most profitable of occupations.

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Excerpt 14

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