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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: she writes," and that is why it is difficult to feel
unhappy in your company. I have never seen
you without wishing to be a better creature.
Your presence is a consoling idea. . . .
know all the elements in you that revive one's
heart, possibly without your being even aware
of it."
A few years later she gives him an amusing
account of the impression his writings had already
made on an eminent statesman.
"I owe you a small episode. Not long ago,
The Forged Coupon | 
