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The monopoly of the colony trade, too, has forced some part of the capital of Great Britain from all foreign trade of consumption to a carrying trade; and, consequently from supporting more or less the industry of Great Britain, to be employed altogether in supporting partly that of the colonies, and partly that of some other countries.

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Book IV, Chapter VII, paragraph 1421

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子曰：「夏禮，吾能言之，杞不足徵也；殷禮，吾能言之，宋不足徵也。文獻不足故也，足，則吾能徵之矣。」

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八佾第三·三之九

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夫纖嗇筋力，治生之正道也，而富者必用奇勝。田農，掘業，而秦揚以蓋一州。掘冢，姦事也，而田叔以起。博戲，惡業也，而桓發用富。行賈，丈夫賤行也，而雍樂成以饒。販脂，辱處也，而雍伯千金。賣漿，小業也，而張氏千萬。灑削，薄技也，而郅氏鼎食。胃脯，簡微耳，濁氏連騎。馬醫，淺方，張裏擊鐘。此皆誠壹之所致。

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貨殖列傳·其他富人·第1则

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秋，七月，牛進達、李海岸入高麗境，凡百餘戰，無不捷。攻石城，拔之。進至積利城下，高麗兵萬餘人出戰，海岸擊破之，斬首二千級。

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卷198·太宗文武大聖大廣孝皇帝下之上貞觀二十一年（丁未，公元六四七年）·第17则

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There is nothing to running a business by custom--to saying: "I pay the going rate of wages." The same man would not so easily say: "I have nothing better or cheaper to sell than any one has." No manufacturer in his right mind would contend that buying only the cheapest materials is the way to make certain of manufacturing the best article. Then why do we hear so much talk about the "liquidation of labour" and the benefits that will flow to the country from cutting wages--which means only the cutting of buying power and the curtailing of the home market? What good is industry if it be so unskillfully managed as not to return a living to everyone concerned? No question is more important than that of wages--most of the people of the country live on wages. The scale of their living--the rate of their wages--determines the prosperity of the country.

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Chapter VIII, excerpt 77

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