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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne: this tour of yours through France and Italy! - Psha! said I, and do
not one half of our gentry go with a humdrum COMPAGNON DU VOYAGE
the same round, and have the piper and the devil and all to pay
besides? When man can extricate himself with an EQUIVOQUE in such
an unequal match, - he is not ill off. - But you can do something
else, La Fleur? said I. - O QU'OUI! he could make spatterdashes,
and play a little upon the fiddle. - Bravo! said Wisdom. - Why, I
play a bass myself, said I; - we shall do very well. You can
shave, and dress a wig a little, La Fleur? - He had all the
dispositions in the world. - It is enough for heaven! said I,
interrupting him, - and ought to be enough for me. - So, supper
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