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丁未，上引諸衛將卒習射於顯德殿庭，諭之曰：「戎狄侵盜，自古有之，患在邊境少安，則人主逸游忘戰，是以寇來莫之能御。今朕不使汝曹穿池築苑，專習弓矢，居閒無事，則為汝師，突厥入寇，則為汝將，庶幾中國之民可以少安乎！」於是日引數百人教射於殿庭，上親臨試，中多者賞以弓、刀、帛，其將帥亦加上考。群臣多諫曰：「於律，以兵刃至御在所者絞。今使卑碎之人張弓挾矢於軒陛之側，陛下親在其間，萬一有狂夫竊發，出於不意，非所以重社稷也。」韓州刺史封同人詐乘驛馬入朝切諫。上皆不聽，曰：「王者視四海如一家，封域之內，皆朕赤子，朕一一推心置其腹中，奈何宿衛之士亦加猜忌乎！」由是人思自勵，數年之間，悉為精銳。

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卷192·高祖神堯大聖光孝皇帝下之下武德九年（丙戌，公元六二六年）·第2则

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功過不容少混，混則人懷惰墮之心； 恩仇不可太明，明則人起攜貳之志。

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第137则

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Money, therefore, the great wheel of circulation, the great instrument of commerce, like all other instruments of trade, though it makes a part, and a very valuable part, of the capital, makes no part of the revenue of the society to which it belongs; and though the metal pieces of which it is composed, in the course of their annual circulation, distribute to every man the revenue which properly belongs to him, they make themselves no part of that revenue.

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Book II, Chapter II, paragraph 731

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高麗王使其子莫離支任武入謝罪，上許之。

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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30则

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A more difficult decision for us was how to measure the progress of Berkshire versus the S&P. There are good arguments for simply using the change in our stock price. Over an extended period of time, in fact, that is the best test. But year-to-year market prices can be extraordinarily erratic. Even evaluations covering as long as a decade can be greatly distorted by foolishly high or low prices at the beginning or end of the measurement period. Steve Ballmer, of Microsoft, and Jeff Immelt, of GE, can tell you about that problem, suffering as they do from the nosebleed prices at which their stocks traded when they were handed the managerial baton.

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2009 Chairman's Letter, excerpt 1

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