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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain: rather than miss, poor, tempted, and mistrained fellows. I am
hoping to eternally and everlastingly squelch your vanity and give
Hadleyburg a new renown--one that will STICK--and spread far. If I
have succeeded, open the sack and summon the Committee on
Propagation and Preservation of the Hadleyburg Reputation.'"
A Cyclone of Voices. "Open it! Open it! The Eighteen to the
front! Committee on Propagation of the Tradition! Forward--the
Incorruptibles!"
The Chair ripped the sack wide, and gathered up a handful of bright,
broad, yellow coins, shook them together, then examined them.
"Friends, they are only gilded disks of lead!"
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