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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Coxon Fund by Henry James: proposed to himself that The Coxon Fund should cover his name with
glory--be universally desired and admired. He left his wife a full
declaration of his views, so far at least as that term may be
applied to views vitiated by a vagueness really infantine. A
little learning's a dangerous thing, and a good citizen who happens
to have been an ass is worse for a community than bad sewerage.
He's worst of all when he's dead, because then he can't be stopped.
However, such as they were, the poor man's aspirations are now in
his wife's bosom, or fermenting rather in her foolish brain: it
lies with her to carry them out. But of course she must first
catch her hare."
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