| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: it. In the mean while the Government of the Union reasons; it
appeals to the interests, to the good sense, to the glory of the
nation; it temporizes, it negotiates, and does not consent to act
until it is reduced to the last extremity. At first sight it
might readily be imagined that it is the provincial government
which is armed with the authority of the nation, and that
Congress represents a single State.
The Federal Government is, therefore, notwithstanding the
precautions of those who founded it, naturally so weak that it
more peculiarly requires the free consent of the governed to
enable it to subsist. It is easy to perceive that its object is
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne: from a terrible death, you thought yourself bound to secure
my comfort in a foreign land?"
"Yes, madam; but circumstances have been against me.
Still, I beg to place the little I have left at your service."
"But what will become of you, Mr. Fogg?"
"As for me, madam," replied the gentleman, coldly, "I have need of nothing."
"But how do you look upon the fate, sir, which awaits you?"
"As I am in the habit of doing."
"At least," said Aouda, "want should not overtake a man like you.
Your friends--"
"I have no friends, madam."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Illustrious Gaudissart by Honore de Balzac: capital,--seize that idea firmly,--intellectual--"
"I understand," said the fool.
"You sign a policy of insurance with a company which recognizes in you
a value of a hundred thousand crowns; in you, poet--"
"I am a painter," said the lunatic.
"Yes," resumed Gaudissart,--"painter, poet, musician, statesman--and
binds itself to pay them over to your family, your heirs, if, by
reason of your death, the hopes foundered on your intellectual capital
should be overthrown for you personally. The payment of the premium is
all that is required to protect--"
"The money-box," said the lunatic, sharply interrupting him.
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