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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: like the peasants, just as he liked and did not like men in
general. Of course, being a good-hearted man, he liked men rather
than he disliked them, and so too with the peasants. But like or
dislike "the people" as something apart he could not, not only
because he lived with "the people," and all his interests were
bound up with theirs, but also because he regarded himself as a
part of "the people," did not see any special qualities or
failings distinguishing himself and "the people," and could not
contrast himself with them. Moreover, although he had lived so
long in the closest relations with the peasants, as farmer and
arbitrator, and what was more, as adviser (the peasants trusted
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