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    "num": 62,
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    "title": "Chapter 62 — The Treasure of All",
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    "text": "## Chapter 62\n\n\nTao has of all things the most honoured place.\nNo treasures give good men so rich a grace;\nBad men it guards, and doth their ill efface.\n\n(Its) admirable words can purchase honour; (its) admirable deeds\ncan raise their performer above others. Even men who are not good are\nnot abandoned by it.\n\nTherefore when the sovereign occupies his place as the Son of\nHeaven, and he has appointed his three ducal ministers, though (a\nprince) were to send in a round symbol-of-rank large enough to fill\nboth the hands, and that as the precursor of the team of horses (in\nthe court-yard), such an offering would not be equal to (a lesson of)\nthis Tao, which one might present on his knees.\n\nWhy was it that the ancients prized this Tao so much? Was it not\nbecause it could be got by seeking for it, and the guilty could escape\n(from the stain of their guilt) by it? This is the reason why all\nunder heaven consider it the most valuable thing.",
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