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There was another bookish lad in the town, John Collins by name, with whom I was intimately acquainted. We sometimes disputed, and very fond we were of argument, and very desirous of confuting one another, which disputatious turn, by the way, is apt to become a very bad habit, making people often extremely disagreeable in company by the contradiction that is necessary to bring it into practice; and thence, besides souring and spoiling the conversation, is productive of disgusts and, perhaps enmities where you may have occasion for friendship. I had caught it by reading my father's books of dispute about religion. Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom fall into it, except lawyers, university men, and men of all sorts that have been bred at Edinborough.

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語言多矯飾，則人品心術，盡屬可疑 氣性乖張，多是夭亡之子。語言深刻，終為福薄之人

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第94段（按原排版相邻两行合并）

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其明年，，卜式貶秩為太子太傅。而桑弘羊為治粟都尉，領大農，盡代僅筦天下鹽鐵。弘羊以諸官各自市，相與爭，物故騰躍，而天下賦輸或不償其僦費，乃請置大農部丞數十人，分部主郡國，各往往縣置均輸鹽鐵官，令遠方各以其物貴時商賈所轉販者為賦，而相灌輸。置平準于京師，都受天下委輸。召工官治車諸器，皆仰給大農。大農之諸官盡籠天下之貨物，貴即賣之，賤則買之。如此，富商大賈無所牟大利，則反本，而萬物不得騰踴。故抑天下物，名曰「平準」。天子以為然，許之。於是天子北至朔方，東到太山，巡海上，并北邊以歸。所過賞賜，用帛百餘萬匹，錢金以巨萬計，皆取足大農。

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平準書·平準書·第47则

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初，昌齡與進士王公治皆善屬文，名振京師，考功員外郎王師旦知貢舉，黜之，舉朝莫曉其故。及奏第，上怪無二人名，詰之。師旦對曰：「二人雖有辭華，然其體輕薄，終不成令器。若置之高第，恐後進效之，傷陛下雅道。」上善其言。

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卷198·太宗文武大聖大廣孝皇帝下之上貞觀二十一年（丁未，公元六四七年）·第10则

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o Our long-term economic goal (subject to some qualifications mentioned later) is to maximize the average annual rate of gain in intrinsic business value on a per-share basis. We do not measure the economic significance or performance of Berkshire by its size; we measure by per-share progress. We are certain that the rate of per-share progress will diminish in the future - a greatly enlarged capital base will see to that. But we will be disappointed if our rate does not exceed that of the average large American corporation.

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1983 Chairman's Letter, excerpt 1

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