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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: ground that he had been overworked from first to last. Even now, he
said, anxious as he was, he had never the time to take up a book. In
consequence of this, I observed him closely; he was occupied for four
or, at the extreme outside, for five hours out of the twenty-four,
and then principally in walking; and the remainder of the day he
passed in born idleness, either eating fruit or standing with his
back against a door. I have known men do hard literary work all
morning, and then undergo quite as much physical fatigue by way of
relief as satisfied this powerful frontiersman for the day. He, at
least, like all the educated class, did so much homage to industry as
to persuade himself he was industrious. But the average mechanic
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