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IF only I had the tiniest grain of wisdom,
I should walk in the
Great Way,
And my only fear would be to stray from it.
The Great Way is very smooth and straight;
And yet the people prefer
devious paths.
The court is very clean and well garnished,
But the fields are very
weedy and wild,
And the granaries are very empty!
They wear gorgeous
clothes,
They carry sharp swords,
They surfeit themselves with food
and drink,
They possess more riches than they can use!
They are the
heralds of brigandage!
As for Tao, what do they know about it?
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