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"My words are easy to understand, And easy to put into practice. Yet no one in the world can understand them, And no one can put them into practice. Now my words have an ancestor, and my deeds have a lord, And it's simply because [people] have no understanding [of them], that they therefore don't understand me. But when those who understand me are few, then I'm of great value. Therefore the Sage wears coarse woolen cloth, but inside it he holds on to jade."
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Lao TzuBook
Tao Te Ching
Version: 8