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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Options by O. Henry: "'Well, so long, Ben. I'm going down home and get off my shoes and
take a rest.'
"'You?' says I. 'What's the matter with you? Ain't the court-house
jammed with everybody in town waiting to honor the hero? And two
brass-bands, and recitations and flags and jags and grub to follow
waiting for you?'
"Willie sighs.
"'All right, Ben,' says he. 'Darned if I didn't forget all about
that.'
"And that's why I say," concluded Ben Granger, "that you can't tell
where ambition begins any more than you can where it is going to wind
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