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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: the bottom - were it only literature. And yet, sir, the man
of the world is a great feature of this age; he is possessed
of an extraordinary mass and variety of knowledge; he is
everywhere at home; he has seen life in all its phases; and
it is impossible but that this great habit of existence
should bear fruit. I count myself a man of the world,
accomplished, CAP-A-PIE. So do you, Challoner. And you, Mr.
Desborough?'
'Oh yes,' returned the young man.
'Well then, Mr. Godall, here we stand, three men of the
world, without a trade to cover us, but planted at the
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