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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: simply that they may vent their hateful and despicable
temperaments upon them."
I was confused and shrugged my shoulders.
"I meant to say generally," she went on, "that there are people
who are quite indifferent and completely devoid of all feeling of
sympathy, yet who do not pass human suffering by, but insist on
meddling for fear people should be able to do without them.
Nothing is sacred for their vanity."
"There are people," I said softly, "who have an angelic
character, but who express their glorious ideas in such a form
that it is difficult to distinguish the angel from an Odessa
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