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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: is buried, or nearly so."
"My friend, I am getting old," said Aramis; "the noise and
bustle of a city no longer suit me. At fifty-seven we ought
to seek calm and meditation. I have found them here. What is
there more beautiful, and stern at the same time, than this
old Armorica. I find here, dear D'Artagnan, all that is
opposite to what I formerly loved, and that is what must
happen at the end of life, which is opposite to the
beginning. A little of my odd pleasure of former times still
comes to salute me here, now and then, without diverting me
from the road of salvation. I am still of this world, and
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