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    "num": 78,
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    "title": "Chapter 78 — Nothing Softer Than Water",
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    "text": "## Chapter 78\n\n\nThere is nothing in the world more soft and weak than water,\nand yet for attacking things that are firm and strong there is nothing\nthat can take precedence of it;--for there is nothing (so effectual)\nfor which it can be changed.\n\nEvery one in the world knows that the soft overcomes the hard, and\nthe weak the strong, but no one is able to carry it out in practice.\n\nTherefore a sage has said,\n 'He who accepts his state's reproach,\nIs hailed therefore its altars' lord;\nTo him who bears men's direful woes\nThey all the name of King accord.'\n\nWords that are strictly true seem to be paradoxical.",
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