Tue, Apr 27, 2027

先生曰：「人生大病只是一傲字。為子而傲必不孝，為臣而傲必不忠，為父而傲必不慈，為友而傲必不信：故象與丹朱俱不肖，亦只一傲字，便結果了此生。諸君常要體此。人心本是天然之理，精精明明，無纖介染著，只是一無我而已；胸中切不可有，有即傲也。古先聖人許多好處，也只是無我而已，無我自能謙。謙者眾善之基，傲者眾惡之魁。」

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卷下·第339条

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問：「『惟精』、『惟一』是如何用功？」 先生曰：「『惟一』是『惟精』主意，『惟精』是『惟一』功夫；非『惟精』之外，復有『惟一』也。『精』字從米，姑以米譬之：要得此米純然潔白，便是『惟一』意；然非加舂簸篩揀『惟精』之功，則不能純然潔白也。舂簸篩揀是『惟精』之功，然亦不過要此米到純然潔白而已。博學、審問、慎思、明辨、篤行者，皆所以為『惟精』而求『惟一』也。他如『博文』者，即『約禮』之功；『格物』、『致知』者，即『誠意』之功；『道問學』即『尊德性』之功；『明善』即『誠身』之功：無二說也。」

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卷上·第25条

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When the tax upon a commodity is so moderate as not to encourage smuggling, the merchant who deals in it, though he advances, does not properly pay the tax, as he gets it back in the price of the commodity. The tax is finally paid by the last purchaser or consumer. But money is a commodity, with regard to which every man is a merchant. Nobody buys it but in order to sell it again; and with regard to it there is, in ordinary cases, no last purchaser or consumer. When the tax upon coinage, therefore, is so moderate as not to encourage false coining, though every body advances the tax, nobody finally pays it; because every body gets it back in the advanced value of the coin.

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Book IV, Chapter VI, paragraph 1285

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Our little wooden shop had, with the business we were doing, become totally inadequate, and in 1906 we took out of our working capital sufficient funds to build a three-story plant at the corner of Piquette and Beaubien streets--which for the first time gave us real manufacturing facilities. We began to make and to assemble quite a number of the parts, although still we were principally an assembling shop. In 1905-1906 we made only two models--one the four-cylinder car at $2,000 and another touring car at $1,000, both being the models of the previous year--and our sales dropped to 1,599 cars.

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Chapter III, excerpt 37

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We used to rivet the crank-case arms to the crank-case, using pneumatic hammers which were supposed to be the latest development. It took six men to hold the hammers and six men to hold the casings, and the din was terrific. Now an automatic press operated by one man, who does nothing else, gets through five times as much work in a day as those twelve men did.

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Chapter V, excerpt 58

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