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文學曰：「君子多聞闕疑，述而不作，聖達而謀大，叡智而事寡。是以功成而不隳，名立而不頓。小人智淺而謀大，羸弱而任重，故中道而廢，蘇秦、商鞅是也。無先王之法，非聖人之道，而因於己，故亡。易曰：『小人處盛位，雖高必崩。不盈其道，不恒其德，而能以善終身，未之有也。是以初登於天，後入於地。』禹之治水也，民知其利，莫不勸其功。商鞅之立法，民知其害，莫不畏其刑。故夏後功立而王，商鞅法行而亡。商鞅有獨智之慮，世乏獨見之證。文學不足與權當世，亦無負累蒙殃也。」

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卷5·遵道第二十三·第7则

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平原之隰，奚有於高？大山之隈，奚有於深？訾讆之人，勿與任大。譕臣者可以遠舉，顧憂者可與致道。其計也速，而憂在近者，往而勿召也。舉長者，可遠見也。裁大者，衆之所比也。美人之懷，定服而勿厭也。必得之事不足賴也，必諾之言不足信也。小謹者不大立，訾食者不肥體。有無棄之言者，必參於天地也。

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第02篇形勢·第3则

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It is thus that, in the progress of improvement, the rent and profit of unimproved pasture come to be regulated in some measure by the rent and profit of what is improved, and these again by the rent and profit of corn. Corn is an annual crop; butcher’s meat, a crop which requires four or five years to grow. As an acre of land, therefore, will produce a much smaller quantity of the one species of food than of the other, the inferiority of the quantity must be compensated by the superiority of the price. If it was more than compensated, more corn-land would be turned into pasture; and if it was not compensated, part of what was in pasture would be brought back into corn.

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Book I, Chapter XI, paragraph 397

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丙辰，上聞太子奉迎將至，從飛騎三千人馳入臨渝關，道逢太子。上之發定州也，指所御褐袍謂太子曰：「俟見汝，乃易此袍耳。」在遼左，雖盛暑流汗，弗之易。及秋，穿敗，左右請易之，上曰：「軍士衣多弊，吾獨御新衣，可乎？」至是，太子進新衣，乃易之。

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卷198·太宗文武大聖大廣孝皇帝下之上貞觀十九年（乙巳，公元六四五年）·第26则

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One of my partners, who had successfully built up a large and prosperous business, was resisting with all his force a plan that some of us favoured, to make some large improvements. The cost of extending the operations of this enterprise was estimated at quite a sum--three million dollars, I think it was. We had talked it over and over again, and with several other associates discussed all the pros and cons; and we had used every argument we could command to show why the plan would not only be profitable, but was indeed necessary to maintain the lead we had. Our old partner was obdurate, he had made up his mind not to yield, and I can see him standing up in his vigorous protest, with his hands in his pockets, his head thrown back, as he shouted "No."

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Chapter I, excerpt 8

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