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Some leases prescribe to the tenant a certain mode of cultivation, and a certain succession of crops, during the whole continuance of the lease. This condition, which is generally the effect of the landlord’s conceit of his own superior knowledge (a conceit in most cases very ill-founded), ought always to be considered as an additional rent, as a rent in service, instead of a rent in money. In order to discourage the practice, which is generally a foolish one, this species of rent might be valued rather high, and consequently taxed somewhat higher than common money-rents.

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Book V, Chapter II, paragraph 1912

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上疾未全平，欲專保養，庚午，詔軍國機務並委皇太子處決。於是太子間日聽政於東宮，既罷，則入侍藥膳，不離左右。上命太子暫出遊觀，太子辭不願出；上乃置別院於寢殿側，使太子居之。褚遂良請遣太子旬日一還東宮，與師傅講道義；從之。

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卷198·太宗文武大聖大廣孝皇帝下之上貞觀二十年（丙午，公元六四六年）·第4则

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丞相史曰：「堯任鯀、驩兜，得舜、禹而放殛之以其罪，而天下咸服，誅不仁也。人君用之齊民，而顏異，濟南亭長也，先帝舉而加之高位，官至上卿。狄山起布衣，為漢議臣，處舜、禹之位，執天下之中，不能以治，而反坐訕上；故驩兜之誅加而刑戮至焉。賢者受賞而不肖者被刑，固其然也。文學又何怪焉？」

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卷5·論誹第二十四·第5则

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故用兵之法，無恃其不來，恃吾有以待之；無恃其不攻，恃吾有所不可攻也。

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九變第八·第3则

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That is getting some years ahead of the story, but it is control by finance that breaks up service because it looks to the immediate dollar. If the first consideration is to earn a certain amount of money, then, unless by some stroke of luck matters are going especially well and there is a surplus over for service so that the operating men may have a chance, future business has to be sacrificed for the dollar of to-day.

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Chapter II, excerpt 27

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