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All the different regulations of the mercantile system necessarily derange more or less this natural and most advantageous distribution of stock. But those which concern the trade to America and the East Indies derange it, perhaps, more than any other; because the trade to those two great continents absorbs a greater quantity of stock than any two other branches of trade. The regulations, however, by which this derangement is effected in those two different branches of trade, are not altogether the same. Monopoly is the great engine of both; but it is a different sort of monopoly. Monopoly of one kind or another, indeed, seems to be the sole engine of the mercantile system.

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Book IV, Chapter VII, paragraph 1469

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子見齊衰者，冕衣裳者，與瞽者，見之，雖少必作，過之必趨。

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子罕第九·九之十

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管子曰：「善爲國者，如金石之相舉，重鈞則金傾，故治權則勢重，治道則勢羸。今穀重於吾國，輕於天下，則諸侯之自泄，如原水之就下。故物重則至，輕則去。有以重至而輕處者。我動而錯之，天下即已於我矣。物臧則重，發則輕，散則多。幣重則民死利，幣輕則決而不用，故輕重調於數而止。」

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第78篇揆度·第9则

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孟子曰：「仁言，不如仁聲之入人深也。善政，不如善教之得民也。善政民畏之；善教民愛之。善政得民財；善教得民心。」

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盡心上·14

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Passing bills, collecting rents, adjusting claims, and work of this kind brought me in association with a great variety of people. I had to learn how to get on with all these different classes, and still keep the relations between them and the house pleasant. One particular kind of negotiation came to me which took all the skill I could master to bring to a successful end.

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Chapter II, excerpt 33

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