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In what I next relate, bear in mind that Charlie and his family did not have a dime invested in the small investing partnership that I was then managing and whose money I had used for the Berkshire purchase. Moreover, neither of us expected that Charlie would ever own a share of Berkshire stock.

Source： https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2023ltr.pdf
2023 Chairman's Letter, excerpt 1

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人只一會貪私，便銷剛為柔，塞智為昏，變恩為慘，染潔為污，壞了一生人品。故古人以不貪為寶，所以度越一世。

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第79则

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大夫曰：「自京師東西南北，歷山川，經郡國，諸殷富大都，無非街衢五通，商賈之所湊，萬物之所殖者。故聖人因天時，智者因地財，上士取諸人，中士勞其形。長沮、桀溺，無百金之積，跖蹻之徒，無猗頓之富，宛、周、齊、魯，商遍天下。故乃商賈之富，或累萬金，追利乘羨之所致也。富國何必用本農，足民何必井田也？」

Source： https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E9%B9%BD%E9%90%B5%E8%AB%96/%E5%8D%B701
卷1·力耕第二·第5则

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諸宰相侍宴，上謂王珪曰：「卿識鑒精通，復善談論，玄齡以下，卿宜悉加品藻，且自謂與數子何如？」對曰：「孜孜奉國，知無不為，臣不如玄齡。才兼文武，出將入相，臣不如李靖。敷奏詳明，出納惟允，臣不如溫彥博。處繁治劇，眾務畢舉，臣不如戴冑。恥君不及堯、舜，以諫爭為己任，臣不如魏徵。至於激濁揚清，嫉惡好善，臣於數子，亦有微長。」上深以為然，眾亦服其確論。

Source： https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E8%B3%87%E6%B2%BB%E9%80%9A%E9%91%91/%E5%8D%B7193
卷193·太宗文武大聖大廣孝皇帝上之中貞觀四年（庚寅，公元六三零年）·第43则

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"It is all very well for you, gentlemen, who work one day in the week and are masters of your time the other six during which you can view the beauties of Nature--all very well for you--but I think it shameful that you should endeavor to shut out from the toiling masses all that is calculated to entertain and instruct them during the only day which you well know they have at their disposal."

Source： https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17976
Chapter X, excerpt 64

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