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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson: as effectually have shown by warning as betraying you."
"Pride," said Imlac, "is seldom delicate; it will please itself
with very mean advantages, and envy feels not its own happiness but
when it may be compared with the misery of others. They were my
enemies because they grieved to think me rich, and my oppressors
because they delighted to find me weak."
"Proceed," said the Prince; "I doubt not of the facts which you
relate, but imagine that you impute them to mistaken motives."
"In this company," said Imlac, "I arrived at Agra, the capital of
Hindostan, the city in which the Great Mogul commonly resides. I
applied myself to the language of the country, and in a few months
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