| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac: unsettled. He had not considered the government as permanently secure
until three hundred deputies at least had the courage to form a
compact majority systematically ministerial. An administration founded
on that basis had come into power since Rabourdin had finished his
elaborate plan. At this time the luxury of peace under the Bourbons
had eclipsed the warlike luxury of the days when France shone like a
vast encampment, prodigal and magnificent because it was victorious.
After the Spanish campaign, the administration seemed to enter upon an
era of tranquillity in which some good might be accomplished; and
three months before the opening of our story a new reign had begun
without any apparent opposition; for the liberalism of the Left had
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: do. So Tom says:
"What's the vittles for? Going to feed the dogs?"
The nigger kind of smiled around graduly over his
face, like when you heave a brickbat in a mud-puddle,
and he says:
"Yes, Mars Sid, A dog. Cur'us dog, too. Does
you want to go en look at 'im?"
"Yes."
I hunched Tom, and whispers:
"You going, right here in the daybreak? THAT
warn't the plan."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: All will be ours, now bloody Talbot's slain.
[Exeunt.]
ACT FIFTH
SCENE I. London. The palace.
[Sennet. Enter King, Gloucester, and Exeter.]
KING.
Have you perused the letters from the pope,
The emperor, and the Earl of Armagnac?
GLOUCESTER.
I have, my lord: and their intent is this:
They humbly sue unto your excellence
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