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大道氾兮，其可左右。 萬物恃之而生而不辭，功成不名有。衣養萬物而不為主，常無欲，可名於小； 萬物歸焉而不為主，可名為大。 以其終不自為大，故能成其大。

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王弼本·三十四章

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子曰：「予欲無言！」子貢曰：「子如不言，則小子何述焉？」子曰：「天何言哉？四時行焉，百物生焉，天何言哉？」

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陽貨第十七·十七之十九

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夫燕亦勃、碣之閒一都會也。南通齊、趙，東北邊胡。上谷至遼東，地踔遠，人民希，數被寇，大與趙、代俗相類，而民雕捍少慮，有魚鹽棗栗之饒。北鄰烏桓、夫餘，東綰穢貉、朝鮮、真番之利。

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貨殖列傳·漢朝·第5则

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Watts, after some weeks, desiring to have me in the composing-room, I left the pressmen; a new bien venu or sum for drink, being five shillings, was demanded of me by the compositors. I thought it an imposition, as I had paid below; the master thought so too, and forbad my paying it. I stood out two or three weeks, was accordingly considered as an excommunicate, and had so many little pieces of private mischief done me, by mixing my sorts, transposing my pages, breaking my matter, etc., etc., if I were ever so little out of the room, and all ascribed to the chappel ghost, which they said ever haunted those not regularly admitted, that, notwithstanding the master's protection, I found myself oblig'd to comply and pay the money, convinc'd of the folly of being on ill terms with those one is to live with continually.

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Excerpt 22

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The sum was soon made in oil stock by the investment of a few hundred dollars which "Vandy" had saved. This was the beginning of our excursion. We asked my partner, Harry Phipps, who was by this time quite a capitalist, to join the party. We visited most of the capitals of Europe, and in all the enthusiasm of youth climbed every spire, slept on mountain-tops, and carried our luggage in knapsacks upon our backs. We ended our journey upon Vesuvius, where we resolved some day to go around the world.

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Chapter X, excerpt 75

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