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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: dainties they like. You might offer these last all the women on
earth--they would turn up their noses; they will have the only
one who can gratify their passion. It often happens that the
woman does not care for them at all, and treats them cruelly;
they buy their morsels of satisfaction very dear; but no matter,
the fools are never tired of it; they will take their last
blanket to the pawnbroker's to give their last five-franc piece
to her. Father Goriot here is one of that sort. He is discreet,
so the Countess exploits him--just the way of the gay world. The
poor old fellow thinks of her and of nothing else. In all other
respects you see he is a stupid animal; but get him on that
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