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The rent of land, it may be thought, is frequently no more than a reasonable profit or interest for the stock laid out by the landlord upon its improvement. This, no doubt, may be partly the case upon some occasions; for it can scarce ever be more than partly the case. The landlord demands a rent even for unimproved land, and the supposed interest or profit upon the expense of improvement is generally an addition to this original rent. Those improvements, besides, are not always made by the stock of the landlord, but sometimes by that of the tenant. When the lease comes to be renewed, however, the landlord commonly demands the same augmentation of rent as if they had been all made by his own.

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Book I, Chapter XI, paragraph 380

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僕誠賴天之靈，偶有見於良知之學，以為必由此，而後天下可得而治。是以每念斯民之陷溺，則為之戚然痛心，忘其身之不肖，而思以此救之，亦不自知其量者。天下之人見其若是，遂相與非笑而詆斥之，以為是病狂喪心之人耳。嗚呼！是奚足恤哉！吾方疾痛之切體，而暇計人之非笑乎？人固有見其父子兄弟之墜溺於深淵者，呼號匍匐，裸跣顛頓，扳懸崖壁而下拯之。士之見者，方相與揖讓談笑於其傍，以為是棄其禮貌衣冠而呼號顛頓若此，是病狂喪心者也。故夫揖讓談笑於溺人之傍而不知救，此惟行路之人，無親戚骨肉之情者能之，然已謂之無惻隱之心非人矣；若夫在父子兄弟之愛者，則固未有不痛心疾首，狂奔盡氣，匍匐而拯之；彼將陷溺之禍有不顧，而況於病狂喪心之譏乎？而又況於蘄人信與不信乎？嗚呼！今之人雖謂僕為病狂喪心之人，亦無不可矣。天下之人心，皆吾之心也。天下之人猶有病狂者矣，吾安得而非病狂乎！猶有喪心者矣，吾安得而非喪心乎？

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卷中·第181条

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The sea in the neighbourhood of the islands of Shetland is more than commonly abundant in fish, which makes a great part of the subsistence of their inhabitants. But, in order to profit by the produce of the water, they must have a habitation upon the neighbouring land. The rent of the landlord is in proportion, not to what the farmer can make by the land, but to what he can make both by the land and the water. It is partly paid in sea-fish; and one of the very few instances in which rent makes a part of the price of that commodity, is to be found in that country.

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Book I, Chapter XI, paragraph 382

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君集之破高昌也，私取其珍寶；將士知之，競為盜竊，君集不能禁，為有司所劾，詔下君集等獄。中書侍郎岑文本上疏，以為：「高昌昏迷，陛下命君集等討而克之，不逾旬日，並付大理。雖君集等自掛網羅，恐海內之人疑陛下唯錄其過，而遺其功也。臣聞命將出師，主於克敵，苟能克敵，雖貪可賞；若其敗績，雖廉可誅。是以漢之李廣利、陳湯，晉之王浚，隋之韓擒虎，皆負罪譴，人主以其有功，鹹受封賞。由是觀之，將帥之臣，廉慎者寡，貪求者眾。是以黃石公《軍勢》曰：『使智，使勇，使貪，使愚，故智者樂立其功，勇者好行其志，貪者急趨其利，愚者不計其死。』伏願錄其微勞，忘其大過，使君集重升朝列，復備驅馳，雖非清貞之臣，猶得貪愚之將，斯則陛下雖屈法而德彌顯，君集等雖蒙宥而過更彰矣。」上乃釋之。

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卷195·太宗文武大聖大廣孝皇帝中之上貞觀十四年（庚子，公元六四零年）·第26则

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There is not much personal contact--the men do their work and go home--a factory is not a drawing room. But we try to have justice and, while there may be little in the way of hand shaking--we have no professional hand shakers--also we try to prevent opportunity for petty personalities. We have so many departments that the place is almost a world in itself--every kind of man can find a place somewhere in it. Take fighting between men. Men will fight, and usually fighting is a cause for discharge on the spot. We find that does not help the fighters--it merely gets them out of our sight. So the foremen have become rather ingenious in devising punishments that will not take anything away from the man's family and which require no time at all to administer.

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Chapter VII, excerpt 76

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