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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Virginibus Puerisque by Robert Louis Stevenson: imagine we shall ever be put into any practical difficulty
from a superfluity of Greenvilles. And besides, I demur to
the opinion. The worth of such actions is not a thing to be
decided in a quaver of sensibility or a flush of righteous
commonsense. The man who wished to make the ballads of his
country, coveted a small matter compared to what Richard
Greenville accomplished. I wonder how many people have been
inspired by this mad story, and how many battles have been
actually won for England in the spirit thus engendered. It is
only with a measure of habitual foolhardiness that you can be
sure, in the common run of men, of courage on a reasonable
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