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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: this,' I said, laughing, and shaking my thick stick.
'It is a man,' she answered, 'but one to be dealt with otherwise
than by blows, Thomas, should you ever chance to meet him.'
'May be, mother, but might is the best argument at the last, for
the most cunning have a life to lose.'
'You are too ready to use your strength, son,' she said, smiling
and kissing me. 'Remember the old Spanish proverb: "He strikes
hardest who strikes last."'
'And remember the other proverb, mother: "Strike before thou art
stricken,"' I answered, and went.
When I had gone some ten paces something prompted me to look back,
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