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它日，李勣入見，上問之曰：「朕欲立武昭儀為后，遂良固執以為不可。遂良既顧命大臣，事當且已乎？」對曰：「此陛下家事，何必更問外人！」上意遂決。許敬宗宣言於朝曰：「田舍翁多收十斛麥，尚欲易婦；況天子欲立一后，何豫諸人事而妄生異議乎！」昭儀令左右以聞。庚午，貶遂良為潭州都督。

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卷199·太宗文武大聖大廣孝皇帝下之下永徽六年（乙卯，公元六五五年）·第16则

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富貴家宜寬厚，而反忌刻，是富貴而貧賤其行矣，如何能享？ 聰明人宜斂藏，而反炫耀，是聰明而愚懵其病矣，如何不敗？

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第31则

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「古者，夫婦之好，一男一女，而成家室之道。及後，士一妾，大夫二，諸侯有侄娣九女而已。今諸侯百數，卿大夫十數，中者侍御，富者盈室。是以女或曠怨失時，男或放死無匹。

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卷6·散不足第二十九·第31则

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But now another difficulty came upon me which I had never the least reason to expect. Mr. Meredith's father, who was to have paid for our printing-house, according to the expectations given me, was able to advance only one hundred pounds currency, which had been paid; and a hundred more was due to the merchant, who grew impatient, and su'd us all. We gave bail, but saw that, if the money could not be rais'd in time, the suit must soon come to a judgment and execution, and our hopeful prospects must, with us, be ruined, as the press and letters must be sold for payment, perhaps at half price.

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Excerpt 33

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All these allurements I declined. The most notable offer of this kind I ever received was one morning in the Windsor Hotel soon after my removal to New York. Jay Gould, then in the height of his career, approached me and said he had heard of me and he would purchase control of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and give me one half of all profits if I would agree to devote myself to its management. I thanked him and said that, although Mr. Scott and I had parted company in business matters, I would never raise my hand against him. Subsequently Mr. Scott told me he had heard I had been selected by New York interests to succeed him. I do not know how he had learned this, as I had never mentioned it. I was able to reassure him by saying that the only railroad company I would be president of would be one I owned.

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Chapter XI, excerpt 80

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