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Condition 1: Contains text "順流而東行至於北海東面而視不見水端於是焉河伯始旋其面目望洋向若而歎曰野語有之曰聞道百以為莫己若" Matched:1.
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秋水 - The Floods of Autumn

English translation: James Legge [?]
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1 秋水:
秋水時至,百川灌河,涇流之大,兩涘渚崖之間,不辯牛馬。於是焉河伯欣然自喜,以天下之美為盡在己。順流而東行,至於北海,東面而視,不見水端,於是焉河伯始旋其面目,望洋向若而歎,曰:「野語有之曰『聞道百,以為莫己若』者,我之謂也。且夫我嘗聞少仲尼之聞而輕伯夷之義者,始吾弗信,今我睹子之難窮也,吾非至於子之門則殆矣,吾長見笑於大方之家。」
The Floods of Autumn:...:
The time of the autumnal floods was come, and the hundred streams were all discharging themselves into the He. Its current was greatly swollen, so that across its channel from bank to bank one could not distinguish an ox from a horse. On this the (Spirit-) earl of the He laughed with delight, thinking that all the beauty of the world was to be found in his charge. Along the course of the river he walked east till he came to the North Sea, over which he looked, with his face to the east, without being able to see where its waters began. Then he began to turn his face round, looked across the expanse, (as if he were) confronting Ruo, and said with a sigh, 'What the vulgar saying expresses about him who has learned a hundred points (of the Dao), and thinks that there is no one equal to himself, was surely spoken of me. And moreover, I have heard parties making little of the knowledge of Zhongni and the righteousness of Bo-yi, and at first I did not believe them. Now I behold the all-but-boundless extent (of your realms). If I had not come to your gate, I should have been in danger (of continuing in my ignorance), and been laughed at for long in the schools of our great System.'

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