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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Distinguished Provincial at Paris by Honore de Balzac: [Laure (l'or)] received with acclamations.
"Faciamus experimentum in anima vili," retorted Lucien with a smile.
"And woe unto him whom reviewers shall spare, flinging him crowns at
his first appearance, for he shall be shelved like the saints in their
shrines, and no man shall pay him the slightest attention," said
Vernou.
"People will say, 'Look elsewhere, simpleton; you have had your due
already,' as Champcenetz said to the Marquis de Genlis, who was
looking too fondly at his wife," added Blondet.
"Success is the ruin of a man in France," said Finot. "We are so
jealous of one another that we try to forget, and to make others
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