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    "title": "Chapter 45 — Great Perfection Seeming Defective",
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    "text": "## Chapter 45\n\n\nWho thinks his great achievements poor\nShall find his vigour long endure.\nOf greatest fulness, deemed a void,\nExhaustion ne'er shall stem the tide.\nDo thou what's straight still crooked deem;\nThy greatest art still stupid seem,\nAnd eloquence a stammering scream.\n\nConstant action overcomes cold; being still overcomes heat. Purity\nand stillness give the correct law to all under heaven.",
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