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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: books and nature as well and near as warmly as he loved his
fellow-creatures, - a melancholy, lean degeneration of the
human character.
"As for the dispute about solitude and society," he thus sums
up: "Any comparison is impertinent. It is an idling down on
the plain at the base of the mountain instead of climbing
steadily to its top. Of course you will be glad of all the
society you can get to go up with? Will you go to glory with
me? is the burden of the song. It is not that we love to be
alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar the
company grows thinner and thinner till there is none at all.
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