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    "num": 68,
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    "title": "Chapter 68 — Not Striving",
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    "text": "## Chapter 68\n\n\nHe who in (Tao's) wars has skill\nAssumes no martial port;\nHe who fights with most good will\nTo rage makes no resort.\nHe who vanquishes yet still\nKeeps from his foes apart;\nHe whose hests men most fulfil\nYet humbly plies his art.\n\nThus we say, 'He ne'er contends,\nAnd therein is his might.'\nThus we say, 'Men's wills he bends,\nThat they with him unite.'\nThus we say, 'Like Heaven's his ends,\nNo sage of old more bright.'",
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