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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: much of a child's lightness of heart throughout
his later years, alternating with attacks of morbid
despondency. He is usually very susceptible to
feminine charm, an ardent but unstable lover,
whose passions are apt to be as shortlived as they
are violent. Story-telling and long-winded dis-
cussions give him keen enjoyment, for he is gar-
rulous, metaphysical, and argumentative. In
money matters careless and extravagant, dilatory
and venal in affairs; fond, especially in the peas-
ant class, of singing, dancing, and carousing; but
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