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    "title": "Chapter 37 — Doing Nothing, Leaving Nothing Undone",
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    "text": "## Chapter 37\n\n\nThe Tao in its regular course does nothing (for the sake of\ndoing it), and so there is nothing which it does not do.\n\nIf princes and kings were able to maintain it, all things would of\nthemselves be transformed by them.\n\nIf this transformation became to me an object of desire, I would\nexpress the desire by the nameless simplicity.\n\nSimplicity without a name\nIs free from all external aim.\nWith no desire, at rest and still,\nAll things go right as of their will.",
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