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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: But I had had my view of that detestable business they call politics -
I had seen it from behind, when it is all bones and blackness; and I
was cured for life of any temptations to take part in it again. A
plain, quiet, private path was that which I was ambitious to walk in,
when I might keep my head out of the way of dangers and my conscience
out of the road of temptation. For, upon a retrospect, it appeared I
had not done so grandly, after all; but with the greatest possible
amount of big speech and preparation, had accomplished nothing.
The 25th of the same month a ship was advertised to sail from Leith;
and I was suddenly recommended to make up my mails for Leyden. To
Prestongrange I could, of course, say nothing; for I had already been a
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