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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honore de Balzac: was made to him, and then discoursed to his tenant about the report
with which he was charged,--being desirous, he said, to obtain his
ideas on the subject.
Rabourdin, to whom no administrative question was foreign, very
readily threw upon the subject a number of very clear and lucid ideas.
He was one of those men to whom the quality of the intellect to which
they address themselves is more or less indifferent; a fool, or a man
of talent who will listen to them, serves equally well to think aloud
to, and they are, as a stimulant, about the same thing. After
Rabourdin had said his say, he observed that Thuillier had not
understood him; but he had listened to himself with pleasure, and he
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