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    "num": 79,
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    "title": "Chapter 79 — Settling Without Resentment",
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    "text": "## Chapter 79\n\n\nWhen a reconciliation is effected (between two parties) after a\ngreat animosity, there is sure to be a grudge remaining (in the mind\nof the one who was wrong). And how can this be beneficial (to the\nother)?\n\nTherefore (to guard against this), the sage keeps the left-hand\nportion of the record of the engagement, and does not insist on the\n(speedy) fulfilment of it by the other party. (So), he who has the\nattributes (of the Tao) regards (only) the conditions of the\nengagement, while he who has not those attributes regards only the\nconditions favourable to himself.\n\nIn the Way of Heaven, there is no partiality of love; it is always\non the side of the good man.",
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