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 1 1 |        and used them for that purpose: -- what shall be thought
 2 3 | rulers and teachers, with the purpose that they should be assisting
 3 3 |     proceedings was without a purpose. And moreover, in the spring
 4 4 |       will not answer for the purpose. Now, a man spends his youth
 5 4 |     not come according to his purpose.' Mencius said, 'A man's
 6 7 |   then you did not carry your purpose out. This does seem as if
 7 8 |       long in Ch'î was not my purpose.'~
 8 11|   returned Mencius, 'with his purpose? He is of service to you.
 9 11| figures on your walls; -- his purpose may be thereby to seek for
10 11|       the case, it is not the purpose which you remunerate, but
11 21|  proves insufficient for that purpose, the nature becomes not
12 26|         If they have the same purpose as Î Yin, they may. If they
13 26|     If they have not the same purpose, it would be usurpation.'~