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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: striven to be true! Truth was the one virtue which I might have
held fast, and did hold fast, through all extremity; save when
thy good -- thy life -- thy fame -- were put in question!
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Then I consented to a deception. But a lie is never good, even
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