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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: mankind's dear possessions; to his or her just brain, and
kind heart, and active hands, mankind intrusts some of its
hopes for the future; he or she is a possible well-spring of
good acts and source of blessings to the race. This money
which you do not need, which, in a rigid sense, you do not
want, may therefore be returned not only in public
benefactions to the race, but in private kindnesses. Your
wife, your children, your friends stand nearest to you, and
should be helped the first. There at least there can be
little imposture, for you know their necessities of your own
knowledge. And consider, if all the world did as you did,
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