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    "num": 59,
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    "title": "Chapter 59 — Sparing",
    "of": 81,
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    "text": "## Chapter 59\n\n\nFor regulating the human (in our constitution) and rendering\nthe (proper) service to the heavenly, there is nothing like\nmoderation.\n\nIt is only by this moderation that there is effected an early\nreturn (to man's normal state). That early return is what I call the\nrepeated accumulation of the attributes (of the Tao). With that\nrepeated accumulation of those attributes, there comes the subjugation\n(of every obstacle to such return). Of this subjugation we know not\nwhat shall be the limit; and when one knows not what the limit shall\nbe, he may be the ruler of a state.\n\nHe who possesses the mother of the state may continue long. His\ncase is like that (of the plant) of which we say that its roots are\ndeep and its flower stalks firm:--this is the way to secure that its\nenduring life shall long be seen.",
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