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This was a trying position for a boy to fill, and at that time I was not popular with the other boys, who resented my exemption from part of my legitimate work. I was also taxed with being penurious in my habits--mean, as the boys had it. I did not spend my extra dimes, but they knew not the reason. Every penny that I could save I knew was needed at home. My parents were wise and nothing was withheld from me. I knew every week the receipts of each of the three who were working--my father, my mother, and myself. I also knew all the expenditures. We consulted upon the additions that could be made to our scanty stock of furniture and clothing and every new small article obtained was a source of joy. There never was a family more united.

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Chapter V, excerpt 26

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己巳，許敬宗奏曰：「永徽爰始，國本未生，權引彗星，越升明兩。近者元妃載誕，正胤降神，重光日融，爝暉宜息。安可反植枝幹，久易位於天庭；倒襲裳衣，使違方於震位！又，父子之際，人所難言，事或犯鱗，必嬰嚴憲，煎膏染鼎，臣亦甘心。」上召見，問之，對曰：「皇太子，國之本也，本猶未正，萬國無所繫心。且在東宮者，所出本微，今知國家已有正嫡，必不自安。竊位而懷自疑，恐非宗廟之福，願陛下熟計之。」上曰：「忠已自讓。」對曰：「能為太伯，願速從之。」

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卷200·高宗天皇大聖大弘孝皇帝上之下永徽六年（乙卯，公元六五五年）·第6则

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First, every individual endeavours to employ his capital as near home as he can, and consequently as much as he can in the support of domestic industry, provided always that he can thereby obtain the ordinary, or not a great deal less than the ordinary profits of stock.

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Book IV, Chapter II, paragraph 1048

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管子曰：令有時，無時則必視順天之所以來。五漫漫，六惛惛，孰知之哉？唯聖人知四時。不知四時，乃失國之基。不知五穀之故，國家乃路。故天曰信明，地曰信聖，四時曰正。其王信明聖，其臣乃正。何以知其王之信明信聖也？曰：慎使能，而善聽信之。使能之謂明，聽信之謂聖。信明聖者，皆受天賞，使不能爲惛。惛而忘也者，皆受天禍。是故上見成事而貴功，則民事接，勞而不謀。上見功而賤，則爲人下者直，爲人上者驕。是故陰陽者，天地之大理也；四時者，陰陽之大徑也；刑德者，四時之合也。刑德合於時則生福，詭則生禍。

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第40篇四時·第1则

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Our captain of the paquet had boasted much, before we sailed, of the swiftness of his ship; unfortunately, when we came to sea, she proved the dullest of ninety-six sail, to his no small mortification. After many conjectures respecting the cause, when we were near another ship almost as dull as ours, which, however, gain'd upon us, the captain ordered all hands to come aft, and stand as near the ensign staff as possible. We were, passengers included, about forty persons. While we stood there, the ship mended her pace, and soon left her neighbour far behind, which prov'd clearly what our captain suspected, that she was loaded too much by the head. The casks of water, it seems, had been all plac'd forward; these he therefore order'd to be mov'd further aft, on which the ship recover'd her character, and proved the sailer in the fleet.

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