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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: along with the others, that commercial idealism which puts so
high a value on time and money. Sanity itself is a kind of
convention. Perhaps Rufe was wrong; but, looking on life
plainly, he was unable to perceive that croquet or poker were
in any way less important than, for instance, mending his
waggon. Even his own profession, hunting, was dear to him
mainly as a sort of play; even that he would have neglected,
had it not appealed to his imagination. His hunting-suit,
for instance, had cost I should be afraid to say how many
bucks - the currency in which he paid his way: it was all
befringed, after the Indian fashion, and it was dear to his
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