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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: - I am not answerable for these statements, though I do think there
is a touch of garrulity about my premises. We have so little to
talk about, you see. The house is three miles from town, in the
midst of great silent forests. There is a burn close by, and when
we are not talking you can hear the burn, and the birds, and the
sea breaking on the coast three miles away and six hundred feet
below us, and about three times a month a bell - I don't know where
the bell is, nor who rings it; it may be the bell in Hans
Andersen's story for all I know. It is never hot here - 86 in the
shade is about our hottest - and it is never cold except just in
the early mornings. Take it for all in all, I suppose this island
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