Hint
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Answer
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Law #1
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Never outshine the master
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Law #2
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Never put too much trust in friends, learn how to use enemies
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Law #3
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Conceal your intensions
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Law #4
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Always say less than necessary
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Law #5
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So much depends on reputation - guard it with your life
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Law #6
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Court attention at all cost
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Law #7
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Get others to do the work for you, but always take the credit
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Law #8
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Make other people come to you - use bait if necessary
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Law #9
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Win through your actions, never through argument
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Law #10
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Infection: avoid the unhappy and unlucky
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Law #11
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Learn to keep people dependent on you
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Law #12
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Use selective honesty and generosity to disarm your victim
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Law #13
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When asking for help, appeal to people's self interest, never to their mercy or gratitude
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Law #14
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Pose as a friend, work as a spy
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Law #15
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Crush your enemy totally
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Law #16
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Use absence to increase respect and honor
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Law #17
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Keep others in suspended terror: cultivate air of unpredictability
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Law #18
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Do not build fortresses to protect yourself - isolation is dangerous
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Law #19
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Know who you are dealing with - do not offend the wrong person
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Law #20
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Do not commit to anyone
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Law #21
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Play a sucker to catch a sucker - seem dumber than you mark
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Law #22
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Use surrender tactic: transform weakness into power
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Law #23
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Concentrate your forces
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Law #24
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Play the perfect courtier
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Law #25
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Re-create yourself
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Law #26
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Keep your hands clean
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Law #27
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Play on people's need to create a cultlike following
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Law #28
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Enter the action with boldness
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Law #29
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Plan all the way to the end
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Law #30
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Make your accomplishments seem effortless
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Law #31
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Control the options: get others play with the cards you deal
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Law #32
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Play to people's fantasies
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Law #33
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Discover each man's thumbscrew
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Law #34
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Be royal in your own fashion: act like a king to be treated like one
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Law #35
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Master the art of timing
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Law #36
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Disdain the things you cannot have: ignoring them is the best revenge
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Law #37
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Create compelling spectacles
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Law #38
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Think as you like but behave like others
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Law #39
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Stir up waters to catch a fish
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Law #40
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Despise the free lunch
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Law #41
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Avoid stepping into great man's shoes
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Law #42
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Strike the shepherd and sheep will scatter
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Law #43
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Work on the hearts and minds of others
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Law #44
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Disarm and intimidate with the mirror effect
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Law #45
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Preach the need for change but never reform too much at once
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Law #46
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Never appear too perfect
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Law #47
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Don't go past the mark you were aiming for; in the victory, learn when to stop
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Law #48
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Assume formlessness
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