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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic: to think what it would be prudent to do, they get crusted
over immediately. That is the curse of rich people--
they teach themselves to distrust and restrain every
impulse toward unusual actions. They get to feel that it
is more necessary for them to be cautious and conventional
than it is for others. I would rather work at a wash-tub
than occupy that attitude toward my bank account. I fight
against any sign of it that I detect rising in my mind.
The instant a wish occurs to me, I rush to gratify it.
That is my theory of life. That accounts for the piano;
and I don't see that you've anything to say about it at
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