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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: your article and what were my thoughts.
One thing in your letter puzzles me. Are you, too, not in the
witness-box? And if you are, why take a wilfully false hypothesis?
If you knew I was a chronic invalid, why say that my philosophy was
unsuitable to such a case? My call for facts is not so general as
yours, but an essential fact should not be put the other way about.
The fact is, consciously or not, you doubt my honesty; you think I
am making faces, and at heart disbelieve my utterances. And this I
am disposed to think must spring from your not having had enough of
pain, sorrow, and trouble in your existence. It is easy to have
too much; easy also or possible to have too little; enough is
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