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戴盈之［1］曰：“什一［2］，去关市之征，
今兹［3］未能。请轻之，以待来年，然后已，
何如？”
孟子曰：“今有人日攘［4］其邻之鸡者，
或告之曰：‘是非君子之道。’曰：‘请损［5］之，
月攘一鸡，以待来年，然后已。’如知其非义，
斯速已矣，何待来年。”
Dai Yingzhi said to Mencius, “I am not able at
present and immediately to do with the levying of a
tithe only, and abolishing the duties charged at the
passes and in the markets. With your leave I will
lighten, however, both the tax and the duties, until
next year, and will then make an end of them. What
do you think of such a course?”
Mencius said, “Here is a man, who every day
appropriates some of his neighbour’s strayed fowls.
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