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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: consistent idling in its place. Thus the tapper would refuse to
watch for the police during a burglary, and call himself a honest
man. It is not sufficiently recognised that our race detests to
work. If I thought that I should have to work every day of my life
as hard as I am working now, I should be tempted to give up the
struggle. And the workman early begins on his career of toil. He
has never had his fill of holidays in the past, and his prospect of
holidays in the future is both distant and uncertain. In the
circumstances, it would require a high degree of virtue not to snatch
alleviations for the moment.
There were many good talkers on the ship; and I believe good talking
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