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“But I have three precious things which I prize and hold fast. The first is gentleness; the second is economy; and the third is shrinking from taking precedence of others.
— Tao Te Ching, ch. 67 – tr. James Legge (1891)
Tao Te Ching, ch. 67 – tr. James Legge (1891)
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