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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: instead of riding it directly down, or advancing toward his
end through a thousand sinister compromises and
considerations. The one man might be wily, might be adroit,
might be wise, might be respectable, might be gloriously
useful; it is the other man who would be good.
The soul asks honour and not fame; to be upright, not to be
successful; to be good, not prosperous; to be essentially,
not outwardly, respectable. Does your soul ask profit? Does
it ask money? Does it ask the approval of the indifferent
herd? I believe not. For my own part, I want but little
money, I hope; and I do not want to be decent at all, but to
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