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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: [23] Or, "you are a good man, and thereby fortunate."
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All this I relate to you (continued Socrates) to show you that quite
high and mighty[1] people find it hard to hold aloof from
agrictulture, devotion to which art would seem to be thrice blest,
combining as it does a certain sense of luxury with the satisfaction
of an improved estate, and such a training of physical energies as
shall fit a man to play a free man's part.[2] Earth, in the first
place, freely offers to those that labour all things necessary to the
life of man; and, as if that were not enough, makes further
contribution of a thousand luxuries.[3] It is she who supplies with
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