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 1 1 |        the utmost. If the year be bad on the inside of the river,
 2 1 |          inside. When the year is bad on the east of the river,
 3 2 |          The king said, 'Is it so bad as that?' 'It is even worse,'
 4 2 | abundantly satisfied, and that in bad years they shall escape
 5 2 |   continually embittered, and, in bad years, they do not escape
 6 5 |         any of all the princes. A bad word addressed to him be
 7 6 |           He would not stand in a bad prince's court, nor speak
 8 6 |           court, nor speak with a bad man. To stand in a bad prince'
 9 6 |          a bad man. To stand in a bad prince's court, or to speak
10 6 |         court, or to speak with a bad man, would have been to
11 7 |          the ranks many times. In bad calamitous years, and years
12 9 |   exaction would be small. But in bad years, the produce being
13 13|           to those of great. When bad government prevails in the
14 19|       allow his eyes to look on a bad sight, nor his ears to listen
15 19|           his ears to listen to a bad sound. He would not serve
16 21|        nature is neither good nor bad."~2. 'Some say, "Man's nature
17 21|           the nature of others is bad. Hence it was that under
18 21|       most of them good, while in bad years the most of them abandon
19 27|       children.'~Mencius said, 'A bad year cannot prove the cause