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    "num": 76,
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    "title": "Chapter 76 — Soft Outlasts Hard",
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    "text": "## Chapter 76\n\n\nMan at his birth is supple and weak; at his death, firm and\nstrong. (So it is with) all things. Trees and plants, in their early\ngrowth, are soft and brittle; at their death, dry and withered.\n\nThus it is that firmness and strength are the concomitants of\ndeath; softness and weakness, the concomitants of life.\n\nHence he who (relies on) the strength of his forces does not\nconquer; and a tree which is strong will fill the out-stretched arms,\n(and thereby invites the feller.)\n\nTherefore the place of what is firm and strong is below, and that\nof what is soft and weak is above.",
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