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    "title": "Chapter 74 — When People Do Not Fear Death",
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    "text": "## Chapter 74\n\n\nThe people do not fear death; to what purpose is it to (try to)\nfrighten them with death? If the people were always in awe of death,\nand I could always seize those who do wrong, and put them to death,\nwho would dare to do wrong?\n\nThere is always One who presides over the infliction death. He who\nwould inflict death in the room of him who so presides over it may be\ndescribed as hewing wood instead of a great carpenter. Seldom is it\nthat he who undertakes the hewing, instead of the great carpenter,\ndoes not cut his own hands!",
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