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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: have a heart, lock it carefully away like a treasure; do not let
any one suspect it, or you will be lost; you would cease to be
the executioner, you would take the victim's place. And if ever
you should love, never let your secret escape you! Trust no one
until you are very sure of the heart to which you open your
heart. Learn to mistrust every one; take every precaution for the
sake of the love which does not exist as yet. Listen, Miguel"--
the name slipped from her so naturally that she did not notice
her mistake--"there is something still more appalling than the
ingratitude of daughters who have cast off their old father and
wish that he were dead, and that is a rivalry between two
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