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 ## Philosophy
 
-The library adheres the following these guidelines:
+The library adheres the following guidelines:
 * only provide essential and reasonably portable functionality;
 * integrate seamlessly with the official Lua library
   (e.g. support Lua files as arguments, behave consistently with the Lua standard library);