| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: and they keep the property with such title that no one can make
complaint or lay claim thereto. In like manner, if any one desire to
have a castle, city, duchy, or any other great thing, he practices so
much financiering through relationships, and by any means he can, that
the other is judicially deprived of it, and it is adjudicated to him,
and confirmed with deed and seal and declared to have been acquired by
princely title and honestly.
Likewise also in common trade where one dexterously slips something out
of another's hand, so that he must look after it, or surprises and
defrauds him in a matter in which he sees advantage and benefit for
himself, so that the latter, perhaps on account of distress or debt,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: which fortune establishes among men, of obedience to established
laws, of the influence of good morals in commonwealths, and of
the support which religious opinions give to order and to
freedom; he even went to far as to quote an evangelical authority
in corroboration of one of his political tenets.
I listened, and marvelled at the feebleness of human reason.
A proposition is true or false, but no art can prove it to be one
or the other, in the midst of the uncertainties of science and
the conflicting lessons of experience, until a new incident
disperses the clouds of doubt; I was poor, I become rich, and I
am not to expect that prosperity will act upon my conduct, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Prince of Bohemia by Honore de Balzac: intimacy? What springs do they touch? What machinery do they set in
motion? But, however comical such domestic dramas may be, we are not
now concerned with them. Du Bruel was secretly married; the thing was
done.
"Cursy before his marriage was supposed to be a jolly companion; now
and again he stayed out all night, and to some extent led the life of
a Bohemian; he would unbend at a supper-party. He went out to all
appearance to a rehearsal at the Opera-Comique, and found himself in
some unaccountable way at Dieppe, or Baden, or Saint-Germain; he gave
dinners, led the Titanic thriftless life of artists, journalists, and
writers; levied his tribute on all the greenrooms of Paris; and, in
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