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Thus, in the neighbourhood of a great town, the demand for milk, and for forage to horses, frequently contribute, together with the high price of butcher’s meat, to raise the value of grass above what may be called its natural proportion to that of corn. This local advantage, it is evident, cannot be communicated to the lands at a distance.

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Book I, Chapter XI, paragraph 399

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先生鍛鍊人處，一言之下感人最深。一日，王汝止出遊歸。 先生問曰：「遊何見？」 對曰：「見滿街人都是聖人。」 先生曰：「你看滿街人是聖人，滿街人到看你是聖人在。」 又一日，董蘿石出遊而歸。 見先生曰：「今日見一異事。」 先生曰﹕「何異？」 對曰：「見滿街人都是聖人。」 先生曰：「此亦常事耳，何足為異。」 蓋汝止圭角未融，蘿石恍見有悟，故問同答異，皆反其言而進之。 洪與黃正之、張叔謙、汝中丙戌會試歸，為先生道塗中講學，有信有不信。 先生曰：「你們拿一個聖人去與人講學，人見聖人來都怕走了，如何講得行！須做得個愚夫愚婦，方可與人講學。」 洪又言今日要見人品高下最易。 先生曰：「何以見之？」 對曰：「先生譬如泰山在前，有不知仰者，須是無目人。」 先生曰：「泰山不如平地大，平地有何可見？」 先生一言翦裁，剖破終年為外好高之病，在座者莫不悚懼。

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數歲而道不通，蠻夷因以數攻吏，吏發兵誅之。悉巴蜀租賦不足以更之，乃募豪民田南夷，入粟縣官，而內受錢於都內。東置滄海郡，人徒之費疑於南夷。又興十餘萬築衛朔方，轉漕甚遠，自山東咸被其勞，費數十百鉅萬，府庫並虛。乃募民能入奴婢得以終身復，為郎增秩，及入羊為郎，始於此。 此後四年，衛青比歲十餘萬眾擊胡，斬捕首虜之士受賜黃金二十餘萬斤，而漢軍士馬死者十餘萬，兵甲轉漕之費不與焉。於是大司農陳臧錢經用，賦稅既竭，不足以奉戰士。有司請令民得買爵及贖禁錮免臧罪；請置賞官，名曰武功爵。級十七萬，凡直三十餘萬金。諸買武功爵官首者試補吏，先除；千夫如五大夫；其有罪又減二等；爵得至樂卿，以顯軍功。

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卷二十四·下 貨·第7则

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Of detail work I feel I have done my full share. As I began my business life as a bookkeeper, I learned to have great respect for figures and facts, no matter how small they were. When there was a matter of accounting to be done in connection with any plan with which I was associated in the earlier years, I usually found that I was selected to undertake it. I had a passion for detail which afterward I was forced to strive to modify.

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Chapter I, excerpt 21

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Dunfermline has long been renowned as perhaps the most radical town in the Kingdom, although I know Paisley has claims. This is all the more creditable to the cause of radicalism because in the days of which I speak the population of Dunfermline was in large part composed of men who were small manufacturers, each owning his own loom or looms. They were not tied down to regular hours, their labors being piece work. They got webs from the larger manufacturers and the weaving was done at home.

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Chapter I, excerpt 5

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