| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: and pushed them towards Mme. Vauquer. "Short reckonings make good
friends" he added, turning to the widow; "that clears our
accounts till the end of the year. Can you give me change for a
five-franc piece?"
"Good friends make short reckonings," echoed Poiret, with a
glance at Vautrin.
"Here is your franc," said Rastignac, holding out the coin to the
sphinx in the black wig.
"Any one might think that you were afraid to owe me a trifle,"
exclaimed this latter, with a searching glance that seemed to
read the young man's inmost thoughts; there was a satirical and
Father Goriot |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 2 by Alexis de Toqueville: not to govern that population, but to use it. An aristocracy
thus constituted can have no great hold upon those whom it
employs; and even if it succeed in retaining them at one moment,
they escape the next; it knows not how to will, and it cannot
act. The territorial aristocracy of former ages was either bound
by law, or thought itself bound by usage, to come to the relief
of its serving-men, and to succor their distresses. But the
manufacturing aristocracy of our age first impoverishes and
debases the men who serve it, and then abandons them to be
supported by the charity of the public. This is a natural
consequence of what has been said before. Between the workmen
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Confessio Amantis by John Gower: So that this Perse in his absence,
Which bar the tunge of pestilence,
With false wordes whiche he feigneth
Upon his oghne brother pleigneth 1650
In privete behinde his bak,
And to his fader thus he spak:
"Mi diere fader, I am holde
Be weie of kinde, as resoun wolde,
That I fro yow schal nothing hide,
Which mihte torne in eny side
Of youre astat into grevance:
Confessio Amantis |
