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The 60,000 men who are at work constantly in the service of the company are kept busy year in and year out. The past year has been a time of great contraction, but the Standard has gone on with its plans unchecked, and the new works and buildings have not been delayed on account of lack of capital or fear of bad times. It pays its workmen well, it cares for them when sick, and pensions them when old. It has never had any important strikes, and if there is any better function of business management than giving profitable work to employees year after year, in good times and bad, I don't know what it is.

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Chapter III, excerpt 58

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葉公問政。子曰：「近者說，遠者來。」

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子路第十三·十三之十六

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大夫曰：「楚自巫山起方城，屬巫、黔中，設扞關以拒秦。秦包商、洛、崤、函，以禦諸侯。韓阻宜陽、伊闕，要成臯、太行，以安周、鄭。魏濱洛築城、阻山帶河，以保晉國。趙結飛狐、句註、孟門，以存邢代。燕塞碣石，絕邪谷，繞援遼。齊撫阿、甄，關榮、歷，倚太山，負海、河。關梁者，邦國之固，而山川者，社稷之寶也。徐人滅舒，春秋謂之『取』，惡其無備，得物之易也。故恤來兵，仁傷刑。君子為國，必有不可犯之難。易曰：『重門擊拓，以待暴客。』言備之素修也。」

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卷9·險固第五十·第5则

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突厥頡利可汗至長安，夏，四月，戊戌，上御順天樓，盛陳文物，引見頡利，數之曰：「汝藉父兄之業，縱淫虐以取亡，罪一也；數與我盟而背之，二也；恃強好戰，暴骨如莽，三也；蹂我稼穡，掠我子女，四也；我宥汝罪，存汝社稷，而遷延不來，五也。然自便橋以來，不復大入為寇，以是得不死耳。」頡利哭謝而退。詔館於太僕，厚廩食之。

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卷193·太宗文武大聖大廣孝皇帝上之中貞觀四年（庚寅，公元六三零年）·第14则

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None of us ever dreamed of the magnitude of what proved to be the later expansion. We did our day's work as we met it, looking forward to what we could see in the distance and keeping well up to our opportunities, but laying our foundations firmly. As I have said, capital was most difficult to secure, and it was not easy to interest conservative men in this adventurous business. Men of property were afraid of it, though in rare cases capitalists were induced to unite with us to a limited extent. If they bought our stock at all, they took a little of it now and then as an experiment, and we were painfully conscious that they often declined to buy new stock with many beautiful expressions of appreciation.

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Chapter III, excerpt 56

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