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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: towards the philosophy and moral of the situation. What was I to
do?
"Never put all your resources into one chance, George; that's the
lesson I draw from this. Have forces in reserve. It was a
hundred to one, George, that I was right--a hundred to one. I
worked it out afterwards. And here we are spiked on the
off-chance. If I'd have only kept back a little, I'd have had it
on U.P. next day, like a shot, and come out on the rise. There
you are!"
His thoughts took a graver turn.
"It's where you'll bump up against Chance like this, George, that
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