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    "title": "Chapter 9 — Knowing When to Stop",
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    "text": "## Chapter 9\n\n\nIt is better to leave a vessel unfilled, than to attempt to\ncarry it when it is full. If you keep feeling a point that has been\nsharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.\n\nWhen gold and jade fill the hall, their possessor cannot keep them\nsafe. When wealth and honours lead to arrogancy, this brings its evil\non itself. When the work is done, and one's name is becoming\ndistinguished, to withdraw into obscurity is the way of Heaven.",
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