| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson: for purposes that he does not care for.
For will any one dare to tell me that business is more entertaining
than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never
seen an office, who says so. And for certain the one is a great
deal better for the health. There should be nothing so much a
man's business as his amusements. Nothing but money-grubbing can
be put forward to the contrary; no one but
Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell
From Heaven,
durst risk a word in answer. It is but a lying cant that would
represent the merchant and the banker as people disinterestedly
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: sure to be a moral fact underlying and causing every political fact)
the absence of that wicked pride which perpetuates caste; forbidding
those to intermarry whom nature and fact pronounce to be fit mates
before God and man.
These views are not mine only. They have been already set forth so
much more forcibly by M. de Tocqueville, that I should have thought
it unnecessary to talk about them, were not the rhetorical phrases,
"Caste," "Privileged Classes," "Aristocratic Exclusiveness," and
such-like, bandied about again just now, as if they represented
facts. If there remain in this kingdom any facts which correspond
to those words, let them be abolished as speedily as possible: but
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton: except more of the same kind of baseness? And getting more and
more blunted to it? At least, till now, I've minded certain
things; I don't want to go on till I find myself taking them for
granted."
She reached out a timid hand. "But you needn't ever, dear ...
if you'd only leave it to me ...."
He drew back sharply. "That seems simple to you, I suppose?
Well, men are different." He walked toward the dressing-table
and glanced at the little enamelled clock which had been one of
her wedding-presents.
"Time to dress, isn't it? Shall you mind if I leave you to dine
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