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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: "I thank you, no."
"I could let you have some cheap--say, as between friends, at a rouble
a head?"
"No, I should have no use for them."
"Then, that being so, there is no more to be said. There is no
accounting for tastes. 'One man loves the priest, and another the
priest's wife,' says the proverb."
Chichikov rose to take his leave. "Once more I would request of you,"
he said, "that the bargain be left as it is."
"Of course, of course. What is done between friends holds good because
of their mutual friendship. Good-bye, and thank you for your visit. In
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