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梁
惠
王
下

supplies of food and drink flow away like water.
The rulers yield themselves to the current, or they
urge their way against it; they are wild; they are
utterly lost: —these things proceed to the grief of the
inferior princes. Descending along with the current,
and forgetting to return, is what I call yielding to
it. Pressing up against it, and forgetting to return,
is what I call urging their way against it. Pursuing
the chase without satiety is what I call being wild.
Delighting in wine without satiety is what I call
being lost. The ancient sovereigns had no pleasures
to which they gave themselves as on the flowing
stream; no doings which might be so characterized
as wild and lost. It is for you, my prince, to pursue
your course.’

The duke Ching was pleased. He issued a
proclamation throughout his state, and went out
and occupied a shed in the borders. From that time
he began to open his granaries to supply the wants

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