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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson: "I AM not willing," said the Prince, "to suppose that happiness is
so parsimoniously distributed to mortals, nor can I believe but
that, if I had the choice of life, I should be able to fill every
day with pleasure. I would injure no man, and should provoke no
resentments; I would relieve every distress, and should enjoy the
benedictions of gratitude. I would choose my friends among the
wise and my wife among the virtuous, and therefore should be in no
danger from treachery or unkindness. My children should by my care
be learned and pious, and would repay to my age what their
childhood had received. What would dare to molest him who might
call on every side to thousands enriched by his bounty or assisted
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