| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde: and does not take his hand.]
CECILY. Uncle Jack, you are not going to refuse your own brother's
hand?
JACK. Nothing will induce me to take his hand. I think his coming
down here disgraceful. He knows perfectly well why.
CECILY. Uncle Jack, do be nice. There is some good in every one.
Ernest has just been telling me about his poor invalid friend Mr.
Bunbury whom he goes to visit so often. And surely there must be
much good in one who is kind to an invalid, and leaves the
pleasures of London to sit by a bed of pain.
JACK. Oh! he has been talking about Bunbury, has he?
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from First Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln: "the citizen of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and
immunities of citizens in the several States?"
I take the official oath today with no mental reservations,
and with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws by
any hypercritical rules. And while I do not choose now to specify
particular acts of Congress as proper to be enforced, I do suggest
that it will be much safer for all, both in official and private stations,
to conform to and abide by all those acts which stand unrepealed,
than to violate any of them, trusting to find impunity in having
them held to be unConstitutional.
It is seventy-two years since the first inauguration of a President
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: who had arrayed him for the grave handed to me two portraits most
delicately painted on ivory and set in gold, which had been found
about his neck. I have them yet. One is of the head of a lady
with a sweet and wistful countenance, and the other the face of a
dead youth also beautiful, but very sad. Doubtless they were
mother and son, but I know no more about them.
On the morrow I buried Andres de Fonseca, but with no pomp, for he
had said that he wished as little money as possible spent upon his
dead body, and returned to the house to meet the notaries. Then
the seals were broken and the parchments read and I was put in full
possession of the dead man's wealth, and having deducted such sums
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