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1.What does the speaker of the poem express in the first two stanzas?
The next best thing to doing what you want is not doing what you don't want.
It is nearly impossible to get what you want in life.
If people could stop seeking out new things and experiences, the world would be a better place.
The speaker wants less, not more, out of life.



2.According to the speaker, what is one perk of not being able to have what you want?
You learn to endure hardships.
You become a stronger person.
You learn not to want to the things you had once desired.
You have the pleasure of wanting something very badly.



3.According to the speaker, why are human beings the only mammals that cry?
Human beings are intellectually and emotionally superior to other mammals.
Human beings feel things that they cannot express and therefore must cry.
Crying is a sign of emotional resiliency.
Mammals could potentially learn to cry, but human beings have always known how.

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