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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: tied more than once in the two months, it was often
disgusting to behold. With such a picture, it is easy to
believe that he never married. A good teacher, gentle in
act, although violent and abusive in speech, his lessons were
apt to go over the heads of his scholars and to leave them
gaping, or more often laughing. Such was his passion for
study that he even grudged himself natural repose; and when
he grew drowsy over his books he would, if it was summer, put
mosquitoes up his sleeve; and, if it was winter, take off his
shoes and run barefoot on the snow. His handwriting was
exceptionally villainous; poet though he was, he had no taste
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