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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: When a stern necessity forces one to leave Cortina, there are
several ways of departure. We selected the main highway for our
trunks, but for ourselves the Pass of the Three Crosses; the Deacon
and the Deaconess in a mountain waggon, and I on foot. It should
be written as an axiom in the philosophy of travel that the easiest
way is best for your luggage, and the hardest way is best for
yourself.
All along the rough road up to the Pass, we had a glorious outlook
backward over the Val d' Ampezzo, and when we came to the top, we
looked deep down into the narrow Val Buona behind Sorapis. I do
not know just when we passed the Austrian border, but when we came
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