The two most important lessons I've learned this century are written below. You're lucky, they're readable in thirty seconds.

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It is written between those same pages that true wisdom seems foolish, so you may snort if you wish...

This is Tao Te Ching, a stirring English translation by Stephen Mitchell.

It is perhaps the most important book I own, and I own several thousand. Amazon.com will sell it to you for about $5.