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Zhuangzi

“Now you, Sir, have a large tree, and you don’t know how to use it, so why not plant it in the middle of nowhere, where you can go to wander or fall asleep under its shade? No axe under Heaven will attack it, nor shorten its days, for something which is useless will never be disturbed.”

Zhuangzi, The Book of Chuang Tzu
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The Book of Chuang Tzu The Book of Chuang Tzu by Zhuangzi
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