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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: in front of some leathern pocket-books, stamped with designs in
color to tempt you instantly to empty your wallet for more new ones
than you will ever have the means to fill. If you do succeed in
tearing yourself away purse-whole, it is only to fall a victim to
some painted fans of so exquisite a make and decoration that escape
short of possession is impossible. Opposed as stubbornly as you may
be to idle purchase at home, here you will find yourself the prey of
an acute case of shopping fever before you know it. Nor will it be
much consolation subsequently to discover that you have squandered
your patrimony upon the most ordinary articles of every-day use.
If in despair you turn for refuge to the booths, you will but have
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