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又用制作未定，上自公侯，下至小吏，皆不得奉祿，而私賦斂，貨賂上流，獄訟不決。吏用苛暴立威，旁緣莽禁，侵刻小民。富者不得自保，貧者無以自存，起為盜賊，依阻山澤，吏不能禽而覆蔽之，浸淫日廣，於是青、徐、荊楚之地往往萬數。戰鬥死亡，緣邊四夷所係虜，陷罪，飢疫，人相食，及莽未誅，而天下戶口減半矣。 自發豬突豨勇後四年，而漢兵誅莽。後二年，世祖受命，盪滌煩苛，復五銖錢，與天下更始。 贊曰：《易》稱「裒多益寡，稱物平施」，《書》云「楙遷有無」，周有泉府之官，而孟子亦非「狗彘食人之食不知斂，野有餓驿而弗知發」。故管氏之輕重，李悝之平糴，弘羊均輸，壽昌常平，亦有從徠。

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卷二十四·下 貨·第31则

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子路宿於石門。晨門曰：「奚自？」子路曰：「自孔氏。」曰：「是知其不可而爲之者與？」

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憲問第十四·十四之四一

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御史進曰：「太公相文、武以王天下，管仲相桓公以霸諸侯。故賢者得位，猶龍得水，騰蛇遊霧也。公孫丞相以春秋說先帝，遽即三公，處周、邵之列，據萬里之勢，為天下準繩，衣不重彩，食不兼味，以先天下，而無益於治。博士褚泰、徐偃等，承明詔，建節馳傳，巡省郡國，舉孝、廉，勸元元，而流俗不改。招舉賢良、方正、文學之士，超遷官爵，或至卿大夫，非燕昭之薦士，文王之廣賢也？然而未睹功業所成。殆非龍蛇之才，而鹿鳴之所樂賢也。」

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卷2·刺復第十·第4则

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孟子見梁襄王。出，語人曰：「望之不似人君，就之而不見所畏焉。卒然問曰：『天下惡乎定？』「吾對曰：『定於一。』「『孰能一之？』「對曰：『不嗜殺人者能一之。』『孰能與之？』「對曰：『天下莫不與也。王知夫苗乎？七八月之間旱，則苗槁矣。天油然作雲，沛然下雨，則苗浡然興之矣。其如是，孰能御之？今夫天下之人牧，未有不嗜殺人者也。如有不嗜殺人者，則天下之民皆引領而望之矣。誠如是也，民歸之，由水之就下，沛然誰能御之？』」

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梁惠王上·6

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He now told me he was about to return to Philadelphia, and should carry over a great quantity of goods in order to open a store there. He propos'd to take me over as his clerk, to keep his books, in which he would instruct me, copy his letters, and attend the store. He added that, as soon as I should be acquainted with mercantile business, he would promote me by sending me with a cargo of flour and bread, etc., to the West Indies, and procure me commissions from others which would be profitable; and, if I manag'd well, would establish me handsomely. The thing pleas'd me; for I was grown tired of London, remembered with pleasure the happy months I had spent in Pennsylvania, and wish'd again to see it; therefore I immediately agreed on the terms of fifty pounds a year, Pennsylvania money; less, indeed, than my present gettings as a compositor, but affording a better prospect.

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