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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Plutarch's Lives by A. H. Clough: humane feelings of a citizen.
While he was yet a boy, bred up in one of what are called the
flocks, or classes, he attracted the attachment of Lysander, who
was particularly struck with the orderly temper that he manifested.
For though he was one of the highest spirits, emulous above any of
his companions, ambitious of preeminence in everything, and showed
an impetuosity and fervor of mind which irresistibly carried him
through all opposition or difficulty he could meet with; yet, on
the other side, he was so easy and gentle in his nature, and so apt
to yield to authority, that though he would do nothing on
compulsion, upon ingenuous motives he would obey any commands, and
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