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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad: Whatever they were they were not the works of great masters,
where the secret of clear thought and exact expression can be
found. Since the age of five I have been a great reader, as is
not perhaps wonderful in a child who was never aware of learning
to read. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and
other romantics. I had read in Polish and in French, history,
voyages, novels; I knew "Gil Blas" and "Don Quixote" in abridged
editions; I had read in early boyhood Polish poets and some
French poets, but I cannot say what I read on the evening before
I began to write myself. I believe it was a novel and it is
quite possible that it was one of Anthony Trollope's novels. It
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