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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: with amateur politicians. Some are office-seekers, and earwig king
and consul, and compass the fall of officials, with an eye to
salary. Some are humorists, delighted with the pleasure of faction
for itself. "I never saw so good a place as this Apia," said one
of these; "you can be in a new conspiracy every day!" Many, on the
other hand, are sincerely concerned for the future of the country.
The quarters are so close and the scale is so small, that perhaps
not any one can be trusted always to preserve his temper. Every
one tells everything he knows; that is our country sickness.
Nearly every one has been betrayed at times, and told a trifle
more; the way our sickness takes the predisposed. And the news
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