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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wheels of Chance by H. G. Wells: he said. "You're real. And it sets me thinking what I really am,
and what I might have been. Suppose it was all different--"
"MAKE it different."
"How?"
"WORK. Stop playing at life. Face it like a man."
"Ah!" said Hoopdriver, glancing at her out of the corners of his
eyes. "And even then--"
"No! It's not much good. I'm beginning too late."
And there, in blankly thoughtful silence, that conversation
ended.
IN THE NEW FOREST
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