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    "num": 80,
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    "title": "Chapter 80 — The Small State",
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    "text": "## Chapter 80\n\n\nIn a little state with a small population, I would so order it,\nthat, though there were individuals with the abilities of ten or a\nhundred men, there should be no employment of them; I would make the\npeople, while looking on death as a grievous thing, yet not remove\nelsewhere (to avoid it).\n\nThough they had boats and carriages, they should have no occasion\nto ride in them; though they had buff coats and sharp weapons, they\nshould have no occasion to don or use them.\n\nI would make the people return to the use of knotted cords (instead\nof the written characters).\n\nThey should think their (coarse) food sweet; their (plain) clothes\nbeautiful; their (poor) dwellings places of rest; and their common\n(simple) ways sources of enjoyment.\n\nThere should be a neighbouring state within sight, and the voices\nof the fowls and dogs should be heard all the way from it to us, but I\nwould make the people to old age, even to death, not have any\nintercourse with it.",
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