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    "name": "Tao Te Ching"
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  "chapter": {
    "num": 27,
    "slug": "27-chapter-27",
    "title": "Chapter 27 — Following the Way Without Trace",
    "of": 81,
    "words": 187,
    "text": "## Chapter 27\n\n\nThe skilful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels or\nfootsteps; the skilful speaker says nothing that can be found fault\nwith or blamed; the skilful reckoner uses no tallies; the skilful\ncloser needs no bolts or bars, while to open what he has shut will be\nimpossible; the skilful binder uses no strings or knots, while to\nunloose what he has bound will be impossible. In the same way the\nsage is always skilful at saving men, and so he does not cast away any\nman; he is always skilful at saving things, and so he does not cast\naway anything. This is called 'Hiding the light of his procedure.'\n\nTherefore the man of skill is a master (to be looked up to) by him\nwho has not the skill; and he who has not the skill is the helper of\n(the reputation of) him who has the skill. If the one did not honour\nhis master, and the other did not rejoice in his helper, an\n(observer), though intelligent, might greatly err about them. This is\ncalled 'The utmost degree of mystery.'",
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