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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: head spinning like a German top by plying him with sentiment! She
will be too much touched by your devotion to forget you; you will
marry her. I mean to play Providence for you, and Providence is
to do my will. I have a friend whom I have attached closely to
myself, a colonel in the Army of the Loire, who has just been
transferred into the garde royale. He has taken my advice and
turned ultra-royalist; he is not one of those fools who never
change their opinions. Of all pieces of advice, my cherub, I
would give you this--don't stick to your opinions any more than
to your words. If any one asks you for them, let him have them--
at a price. A man who prides himself on going in a straight line
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