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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Elizabeth and her German Garden by Marie Annette Beauchamp: passion ends, and that principles are strongest where temptations
are most rare."
"But what has all this to do with us?" I inquired severely.
"You were displeased at our law classing you as it does,
and I merely wish to justify it," he <171> answered.
"Creatures who habitually say yes to everything a man proposes,
when no one can oblige them to say it, and when it is so often fatal,
are plainly not responsible beings."
"I shall never say it to you again, my dear man," I said.
"And not only that fatal weakness," he continued,
"but what is there, candidly, to distinguish you from children?
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