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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: upon some injustices that had been done me: however, I would
give him all the satisfaction I was able."
I said, "there was a society of men among us, bred up from their
youth in the art of proving, by words multiplied for the purpose,
that white is black, and black is white, according as they are
paid. To this society all the rest of the people are slaves.
For example, if my neighbour has a mind to my cow, he has a
lawyer to prove that he ought to have my cow from me. I must
then hire another to defend my right, it being against all rules
of law that any man should be allowed to speak for himself. Now,
in this case, I, who am the right owner, lie under two great
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