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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: things beautiful in miniature. The reader will recollect the little
summer scene in WUTHERING HEIGHTS - the one warm scene, perhaps, in
all that powerful, miserable novel - and the great feature that is
made therein by grasses and flowers and a little sunshine: this is
in the spirit of which I now speak. And, lastly, we can go indoors;
interiors are sometimes as beautiful, often more picturesque, than
the shows of the open air, and they have that quality of shelter of
which I shall presently have more to say.
With all this in mind, I have often been tempted to put forth the
paradox that any place is good enough to live a life in, while it is
only in a few, and those highly favoured, that we can pass a few
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