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"Should you want to take the world, and contrive to do so, I see you won't manage to finish. The most sublime instrument in the world cannot be contrived. Those who contrive spoil it; those who cling lose it. So creatures sometimes go and sometimes follow, sometimes puff and sometimes blow, are sometimes strong and sometimes weak, begin sometime and end sometime; Therefore sages remove extremes, remove extravagance, remove arrogance."