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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac: give in our resignations! Fleury, Chazelle, fling yourselves into
other employments and become the great men you really are."
Chazelle [calmed down by Bixiou's allocution]. "No, I thank you"
[general laughter].
Bixiou. "You are wrong; in your situation I should try to get ahead of
the general-secretary."
Chazelle [uneasily]. "What has he to do with me?"
Bixiou. "You'll find out; do you suppose Baudoyer will overlook what
happened just now?"
Fleury. "Another piece of Bixiou's spite! You've a queer fellow to
deal with in there. Now, Monsieur Rabourdin,--there's a man for you!
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