| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The United States Constitution: and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire
shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode Island
and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New York six,
New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six,
Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three.
When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive
Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies.
The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers;
and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.
Section 3. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of
two Senators from each State, chosen by the legislature thereof,
The United States Constitution |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Old Maid by Honore de Balzac: double its purpose and make it the saviour of his genius by securing
to him the means of subsistence!
Moved by such ideas, Athanase Granson first thought of marriage with
Mademoiselle Cormon as a means of obtaining a livelihood which would
be permanent. Thence he could rise to fame, and make his mother happy,
knowing at the same time that he was capable of faithfully loving his
wife. But soon his own will created, although he did not know it, a
genuine passion. He began to study the old maid, and, by dint of the
charm which habit gives, he ended by seeing only her beauties and
ignoring her defects.
In a young man of twenty-three the senses count for much in love;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: suffer with impatience the state of inaction to which it
confined him; and it was only the ascendency which his new
companion had acquired over him that induced him to submit to a
course of life so alien to his habits and inclinations.
"You were wont to be thought a stirring active young fellow,
Master," was his frequent remonstrance; "yet here you seem
determined to live on and on like a rat in a hole, with this
trifling difference, that the wiser vermin chooses a hermitage
where he can find food at least; but as for us, Caleb's excuses
become longer as his diet turns more spare, and I fear we shall
realise the stories they tell of the slother: we have almost eat
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