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“All difficult things in the world are sure to arise from a previous state in which they were easy, and all great things from one in which they were small.
— Tao Te Ching, ch. 63 – tr. James Legge (1891)
Tao Te Ching, ch. 63 – tr. James Legge (1891)
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