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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: made myself happy, I have at least one good argument that I
have acted rightly; but where that is not so, and I have
bought and not enjoyed, my mouth is closed, and I conceive
that I have robbed the poor. And, second, anything I buy or
use which I do not sincerely want or cannot vividly enjoy,
disturbs the balance of supply and demand, and contributes to
remove industrious hands from the production of what is
useful or pleasurable and to keep them busy upon ropes of
sand and things that are a weariness to the flesh. That
extravagance is truly sinful, and a very silly sin to boot,
in which we impoverish mankind and ourselves. It is another
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