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his brother and leaving his mother, he went and
dwelt in Wuling. One day afterwards, he returned
to their house, when it happened that some one sent
his brother a present of a live goose. He, knitting
his eyebrows, said, ‘What are you going to use that
cackling thing for?’ By-and-by his mother killed
the goose, and gave him some of it to eat. Just then
his brother came into the house, and said, ‘It is the
flesh of that cackling thing,’ upon which he went
out and vomited it. Thus, what his mother gave him
he would not eat, but what his wife gives him he
eats. He will not dwell in his brother’s house, but he
dwells in Wuling. How can he in such circumstances
complete the style of life which he professes? With
such principles as Zhong holds, a man must be an
earthworm, and then he can carry them out.”
【注释】［1］匡章：齐国名将，为孟子友人。［2］
陈仲子：齐国人，因居住在於（w$）陵，后
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