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    "num": 56,
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    "title": "Chapter 56 — Those Who Know Do Not Speak",
    "of": 81,
    "words": 105,
    "text": "## Chapter 56\n\n\nHe who knows (the Tao) does not (care to) speak (about it); he\nwho is (ever ready to) speak about it does not know it.\n\nHe (who knows it) will keep his mouth shut and close the portals\n(of his nostrils). He will blunt his sharp points and unravel the\ncomplications of things; he will attemper his brightness, and bring\nhimself into agreement with the obscurity (of others). This is called\n'the Mysterious Agreement.'\n\n(Such an one) cannot be treated familiarly or distantly; he is\nbeyond all consideration of profit or injury; of nobility or\nmeanness:--he is the noblest man under heaven.",
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