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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: found the animal in the hands of a larger boy than either of us, who
mocked him and refused to restore the animal to his rightful owner.
Whereupon, naturally, he came weeping to me, and demanded that I
should rescue the goat and annihilate the aggressor. My terror was
beyond description: fortunately for me, it imparted such a
ghastliness to my voice and aspect as I under the eye of my poor
little dupe, advanced on the enemy with that hideous extremity of
cowardice which is called the courage of despair, and said "You let go
that goat," that he abandoned his prey and fled, to my unforgettable,
unspeakable relief. I have never since exaggerated my prowess in
bodily combat.
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