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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol: health, and such a martyr I am to dyspepsia."
"But how to you propose to live without working? How can a man like
you exist without a post or a position of any kind? Look around you at
the works of God. Everything has its proper function, and pursues its
proper course. Even a stone can be used for one purpose or another.
How, then, can it be right for a man who is a thinking being to remain
a drone?"
"But I should not be a drone, for I should employ myself with the
education of my children."
"No, Semen Semenovitch--no: THAT you would find the hardest task of
all. For how can a man educate his children who has never even
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