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"If I had any learning Of a highway wide and fit, Would I lose it at each turning? Yet look at people spurning Natural use of it! See how fine the palaces And see how poor the farms, How bare the peasants' granaries While gentry wear embroideries Hiding sharpened arms, And the more they have the more they seize, How can there be such men as these Who never hunger, never thirst, Yet eat and drink until they burst! There are other brigands, but these are the worst Of all the highway's harms."
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Lao TzuBook
Tao Te Ching
Version: 10