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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: VIVIE. Yes, really and truly.
FRANK. Well, she's ever so jolly. But she's rather a caution,
isnt she? And Crofts! Oh, my eye, Crofts! [He sits beside
her].
VIVIE. What a lot, Frank!
FRANK. What a crew!
VIVIE [with intense contempt for them] If I thought that _I_ was
like that--that I was going to be a waster, shifting along from
one meal to another with no purpose, and no character, and no
grit in me, I'd open an artery and bleed to death without one
moment's hesitation.
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