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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad: appears so very necessary when time has laid its soothing hand upon
the passionate misunderstandings and the passionate desires of
great peoples. "Le temps," as a distinguished Frenchman has said,
"est un galant homme." He fosters the spirit of concord and
justice, in whose work there is as much glory to be reaped as in
the deeds of arms.
One of them disorganized by revolutionary changes, the other rusted
in the neglect of a decayed monarchy, the two fleets opposed to us
entered the contest with odds against them from the first. By the
merit of our daring and our faithfulness, and the genius of a great
leader, we have in the course of the war augmented our advantage
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