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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Art of Writing by Robert Louis Stevenson: copious Corinthian baseness of the American reporter or the
Parisian CHRONIQUEAR, both so lightly readable, must exercise
an incalculable influence for ill; they touch upon all
subjects, and on all with the same ungenerous hand; they
begin the consideration of all, in young and unprepared
minds, in an unworthy spirit; on all, they supply some
pungency for dull people to quote. The mere body of this
ugly matter overwhelms the rare utterances of good men; the
sneering, the selfish, and the cowardly are scattered in
broad sheets on every table, while the antidote, in small
volumes, lies unread upon the shelf. I have spoken of the
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