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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes: kills their mortal frames and drives out the immortal tenants. Men
sicken of houses until at last they quit them, as the soul leaves
its body when it is tired of its infirmities. The body has been
called "the house we live in"; the house is quite as much the body
we live in. Shall I tell you some things the Professor said the
other day? - Do! - said the schoolmistress.
A man's body, - said the Professor, - is whatever is occupied by
his will and his sensibility. The small room down there, where I
wrote those papers you remember reading, was much more a portion of
my body than a paralytic's senseless and motionless arm or leg is
of his.
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