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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: unemployed.
'I have examined all the theatres in London,' he was saying; 'and
pacing the principal entrances, I have ascertained them to be
ridiculously disproportionate to the requirements of their
audiences. The doors opened the wrong way--I forget at this
moment which it is, but have a note of it at home; they were
frequently locked during the performance, and when the auditorium
was literally thronged with English people. You have probably not
had my opportunities of comparing distant lands; but I can assure
you this has been long ago recognized as a mark of aristocratic
government. Do you suppose, in a country really self-governed,
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