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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: have no pride, that is a human passion."
"Pride, -- yes, you are right. Next?"
"Well, my lord, if I have divined rightly, your eminence has
but to give all your money to the king, and that
immediately."
"But for what?" said Mazarin, quite bewildered.
"Because the king will not accept of the whole."
"What, and he a young man, and devoured by ambition?"
"Just so."
"A young man who is anxious for my death ---- "
"My lord!"
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