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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: carefulness?
Yes, certainly (Ischomachus answered), and I remember how piqued she
was at one time and how deeply she blushed, when I chanced to ask her
for something which had been brought into the house, and she could not
give it me. So I, when I saw her annoyance, fell to consoling her. "Do
not be at all disheartened, my wife, that you cannot give me what I
ask for. It is plain poverty,[1] no doubt, to need a thing and not to
have the use of it. But as wants go, to look for something which I
cannot lay my hands upon is a less painful form of indigence than
never to dream of looking because I know full well that the thing
exists not. Anyhow, you are not to blame for this," I added; "mine the
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