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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: health and strength? After what particular manner do you practise the
arts of war? How do you take pains to create a surplus which will
enable you to benefit your friends and to gratify the state?
[11] Or, "by working off ill-humours," as we should say.
Why then (Ischomachus replied), my habit is to rise from bed betimes,
when I may still expect to find at home this, that, or the other
friend, whom I may wish to see. Then, if anything has to be done in
town, I set off to transact the business and make that my walk;[12]
or, if there is no business to do in town, my serving-boy leads my
horse to the farm; I follow, and so make the country-road my walk,
which suits my purpose quite as well, or better, Socrates, perhaps,
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