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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: in a great house and spacious and beautiful demesne, he may
live as blank a life as any tattered ditcher. Without an
appetite, without an aspiration, void of appreciation,
bankrupt of desire and hope, there, in his great house, let
him sit and look upon his fingers. It is perhaps a more
fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than
to be born a millionaire. Although neither is to be
despised, it is always better policy to learn an interest
than to make a thousand pounds; for the money will soon be
spent, or perhaps you may feel no joy in spending it; but the
interest remains imperishable and ever new. To become a
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