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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: personal delight.' And though St. Paul, if he had possessed
a private fortune, would probably have scorned to waste his
time in making tents, yet of all sacrifices to public opinion
none can be more easily pardoned than that by which a man,
already spiritually useful to the world, should restrict the
field of his chief usefulness to perform services more
apparent, and possess a livelihood that neither stupidity nor
malice could call in question. Like all sacrifices to public
opinion and mere external decency, this would certainly be
wrong; for the soul should rest contented with its own
approval and indissuadably pursue its own calling. Yet, so
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