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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: would like to live where it is always winter.
Now you must not ask me to tell you what a glacier is like, for I
have never seen one; at least, those which I have seen were more
than fifty miles away, looking like white clouds hanging on the
gray mountain sides. And it would be an impertinence--that means
a meddling with things which I have no business--to picture to you
glaciers which have been pictured so well and often by gentlemen
who escape every year from their hard work in town to find among
the glaciers of the Alps health and refreshment, and sound
knowledge, and that most wholesome and strengthening of all
medicines, toil.
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