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    "title": "Chapter 12 — Belly Over Eye",
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    "text": "## Chapter 12\n\n\nColour's five hues from th' eyes their sight will take;\nMusic's five notes the ears as deaf can make;\nThe flavours five deprive the mouth of taste;\nThe chariot course, and the wild hunting waste\nMake mad the mind; and objects rare and strange,\nSought for, men's conduct will to evil change.\n\nTherefore the sage seeks to satisfy (the craving of) the belly, and\nnot the (insatiable longing of the) eyes. He puts from him the\nlatter, and prefers to seek the former.",
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