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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: be left in your hands entirely. You are a woman, you are
inexperienced, you know nothing of life, you are too confiding
and expansive. You have surrounded yourself with assistants whom
you know nothing about. I am not exaggerating if I say that under
these conditions your work will inevitably lead to two deplorable
consequences. To begin with, our district will be left
unrelieved; and, secondly, you will have to pay for your mistakes
and those of your assistants, not only with your purse, but with
your reputation. The money deficit and other losses I could, no
doubt, make good, but who could restore you your good name? When
through lack of proper supervision and oversight there is a
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