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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: have looked for. 'You shall see,' he cried; 'you shall judge
for yourself.' And hurrying to the next room he returned
with a small portrait somewhat coarsely done in oils. It
showed a man in the dress of nearly forty years before, young
indeed, but still recognisable to be the doctor. 'Do you
like it?' he asked. 'That is myself when I was young. My -
my boy will be like that, like but nobler; with such health
as angels might condescend to envy; and a man of mind,
Asenath, of commanding mind. That should be a man, I think;
that should be one among ten thousand. A man like that - one
to combine the passions of youth with the restraint, the
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