| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: advice you gave me last July, gov'nor?
REV. S. [severely] Yes. I advised you to conquer your idleness
and flippancy, and to work your way into an honorable profession
and live on it and not upon me.
FRANK. No: thats what you thought of afterwards. What you
actually said was that since I had neither brains nor money, I'd
better turn my good looks to account by marrying someone with
both. Well, look here. Miss Warren has brains: you cant deny
that.
REV. S. Brains are not everything.
FRANK. No, of course not: theres the money--
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Illustrious Gaudissart by Honore de Balzac: crowns--"
"Do you give me a hundred thousand crowns?"
"Yes, Monsieur, as you will see. Either your heirs and assigns will
receive them if you die, for the company contemplates that event, or
you will receive them in the long run through your works of art, your
writings, or your fortunate speculations during your lifetime. But, as
I have already had the honor to tell you, when you have once fixed
upon the value of your intellectual capital,--for it is intellectual
capital,--seize that idea firmly,--intellectual--"
"I understand," said the fool.
"You sign a policy of insurance with a company which recognizes in you
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Collected Articles by Frederick Douglass: consistent with itself, and give to every loyal citizen the elective franchise,
--a right and power which will be ever present, and will form a wall
of fire for his protection.
One of the invaluable compensations of the late Rebellion
is the highly instructive disclosure it made of the true source
of danger to republican government. Whatever may be tolerated
in monarchical and despotic governments, no republic is safe
that tolerates a privileged class, or denies to any of its citizens
equal rights and equal means to maintain them. What was theory
before the war has been made fact by the war.
There is cause to be thankful even for rebellion. It is an impressive teacher,
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