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    "num": 48,
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    "title": "Chapter 48 — Daily Decrease",
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    "text": "## Chapter 48\n\n\nHe who devotes himself to learning (seeks) from day to day to\nincrease (his knowledge); he who devotes himself to the Tao (seeks)\nfrom day to day to diminish (his doing).\n\nHe diminishes it and again diminishes it, till he arrives at doing\nnothing (on purpose). Having arrived at this point of non-action,\nthere is nothing which he does not do.\n\nHe who gets as his own all under heaven does so by giving himself\nno trouble (with that end). If one take trouble (with that end), he\nis not equal to getting as his own all under heaven.",
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