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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: but to those who even modestly succeed, the changes of their
life bring interest: a job found, a shilling saved, a dainty
earned, all these are wells of pleasure springing afresh for
the successful poor; and it is not from these but from the
villa-dweller that we hear complaints of the unworthiness of
life. Much, then, as the average of the proletariat would
gain in this new state of life, they would also lose a
certain something, which would not be missed in the
beginning, but would be missed progressively and
progressively lamented. Soon there would be a looking back:
there would be tales of the old world humming in young men's
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