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Thanks We sneak in I mean here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by rob our zombie brain merchant

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rob izam being behaved while we take a look at

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this question aren't you rob Ok check the passage What

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life means to me morning working last million gentlemen and

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mean newsradio in government bonds and only by pirates and

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become pillars sinan bey and frantic percent grain merchant discovered

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in last country All right we're not with which statement

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with author most likely agree and hear the potential answers

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more mumbling we're done Okay so let's look at answer

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be first everyone should aim to be successful in joined

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higher society Rob you do look great in a tux

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But the story ends with london telling us that high

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society isn't all it's cracked up to be The imposing

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edifice of society holds no delights for me Toby isn't

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correct on answer See hard work does not always result

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in success Well rob you may work hard chasing people

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or brains brains brains But you don't always catch him

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do you In fact london did have success as a

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brain merchant I was a success Society opened its portals

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To me But then he decided that going back to

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the working class was better for him so he can't

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be right onto answer D making money as an oyster

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pirate is more valuable than studying sociology Well this is

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reading comprehension Rob not biology so try to focus their

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body in this text London basically tells us that he

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liked doing both but doesn't place any value judgments on

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either The imposing edifice of society holds no delights for

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me It is the foundation of the edifice that interest

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me He just talks about what was right for him

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So d is gone now answer A people are all

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very similar It is education that makes a difference Yes

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rob All people have brains brains again not biology Here

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option is the most correct of our choices It's the

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first half of the answer here that really clinch is

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this way One london tells us in the story that

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he finds people to be made of the same clay

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Though we're all alike We just come from different circumstances

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and have different opportunities Yeah rob they've all got brains

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