| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moral Emblems by Robert Louis Stevenson: 'Money is money,' so he said.
'Crescents are crescents, trade is trade.
Pharaohs and emperors in their seasons
Built, I believe, for different reasons -
Charity, glory, piety, pride -
To pay the men, to please a bride,
To use their stone, to spite their neighbours,
Not for a profit on their labours.
They built to edify or bewilder;
I build because I am a builder.
Crescent and street and square I build,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: The landing-master's crew and artificers accordingly entered
with great spirit into this operation. The stone was placed
upon the deck of the HEDDERWICK praam-boat, which had just
been brought from Leith, and was decorated with colours for
the occasion. Flags were also displayed from the shipping in
the offing, and upon the beacon. Here the writer took his
station with the greater part of the artificers, who supported
themselves in every possible position while the boats towed
the praam from her moorings and brought her immediately over
the site of the building, where her grappling anchors were let
go. The stone was then lifted off the deck by a tackle hooked
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Alkahest by Honore de Balzac: taste became hereditary in the family. The hundred pictures which
adorned the gallery leading from the family building to the reception-
rooms on the first floor of the front house, as well as some fifty
others placed about the salons, were the product of the patient
researches of three centuries. Among them were choice specimens of
Rubens, Ruysdael, Vandyke, Terburg, Gerard Dow, Teniers, Mieris, Paul
Potter, Wouvermans, Rembrandt, Hobbema, Cranach, and Holbein. French
and Italian pictures were in a minority, but all were authentic and
masterly.
Another generation had fancied Chinese and Japanese porcelains: this
Claes was eager after rare furniture, that one for silver-ware; in
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