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  1. The ancients who wished to illustrate illustrious virtue throughout the Kingdom, first ordered well their own states. Wishing to order well their states, they …

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  2. He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful - may be called intellig…

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  3. Things have their root and their branches. Affairs have their end and their beginning. To know what is first and what is last will lead near to what is taught …

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