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Various attributionsMcGuirk, Kevin. “‘[T]He Apple an Apple’: Ammons, Bloom, and ‘the Ten Thousand Things’—with Emerson and Lao Tzu.” Journal of Modern Literature 44, no. 1 (2020): 77–95. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/jmodelite.44.1.05.
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Nothing that can be said in words is worth saying.

— Laozi

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Nothing that can be said in words is worth saying." in the context of "Various attributionsMcGuirk, Kevin. “‘[T]He Apple an Apple’: Ammons, Bloom, and ‘the Ten Thousand Things’—with Emerson and Lao Tzu.” Journal of Modern Literature 44, no. 1 (2020): 77–95. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/jmodelite.44.1.05. " to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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About Laozi

老子 Lǎozi (c. 6th – 5th century BC) was a Chinese monist philosopher; also called Lao Zi, Lao Tzu, Lao Tse, or Lao Tze. The Tao Te Ching (道德經, Pinyin: Dào Dé Jīng, or Dao De Jing) represents the sole document generally attributed to Laozi.