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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: Thus I addressed her, Socrates, and thus my wife made answer: "But how
can I assist you? what is my ability? Nay, everything depends on you.
My business, my mother told me, was to be sober-minded!"[17]
[17] "Modest and temperate," and (below) "temperance."
"Most true, my wife," I replied, "and that is what my father said to
me. But what is the proof of sober-mindedness in man or woman? Is it
not so to behave that what they have of good may ever be at its best,
and that new treasures from the same source of beauty and
righteousness may be most amply added?"
"But what is there that I can do," my wife inquired, "which will help
to increase our joint estate?"
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