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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: imported Russian wheat. Any one who had heard him hold forth on
the regulations that control the importation and exportation of
grain, who had seen his grasp of the subject, his clear insight
into the principles involved, his appreciation of weak points in
the way that the system worked, would have thought that here was
the stuff of which a minister is made. Patient, active, and
persevering, energetic and prompt in action, he surveyed his
business horizon with an eagle eye. Nothing there took him by
surprise; he foresaw all things, knew all that was happening, and
kept his own counsel; he was a diplomatist in his quick
comprehension of a situation; and in the routine of business he
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