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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Virginibus Puerisque by Robert Louis Stevenson: were granted. The second or third day after, Greenville died
of his wounds aboard the Spanish flagship, leaving his
contempt upon the "traitors and dogs" who had not chosen to do
as he did, and engage fifty vessels, well found and fully
manned, with six inferior craft ravaged by sickness and short
of stores. He at least, he said, had done his duty as he was
bound to do, and looked for everlasting fame.
Some one said to me the other day that they considered
this story to be of a pestilent example. I am not inclined to
imagine we shall ever be put into any practical difficulty
from a superfluity of Greenvilles. And besides, I demur to
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