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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain: me. I wanted to damage every man in the place, and every woman--and
not in their bodies or in their estate, but in their vanity--the
place where feeble and foolish people are most vulnerable. So I
disguised myself and came back and studied you. You were easy game.
You had an old and lofty reputation for honesty, and naturally you
were proud of it--it was your treasure of treasures, the very apple
of your eye. As soon as I found out that you carefully and
vigilantly kept yourselves and your children OUT OF TEMPTATION, I
knew how to proceed. Why, you simple creatures, the weakest of all
weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire. I
laid a plan, and gathered a list of names. My project was to
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