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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: than during serfdom."
"I think as you do, and I count it a sin to possess land, so I
wish to give it away," said Nekhludoff.
"Well, that's a good thing," said the old man, with curls like
Angelo's "Moses," evidently thinking that Nekhludoff meant to let
the land.
"I have come here because I no longer wish to possess any land,
and now we must consider the best way of dividing it."
"Just give it to the peasants, that's all," said the cross,
toothless old man.
Nekhludoff was abashed for a moment, feeling a suspicion of his
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