| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Episode Under the Terror by Honore de Balzac: DEDICATION
To Monsieur Guyonnet-Merville.
Is it not a necessity to explain to a public curious to know
everything, how I came to be sufficiently learned in the law to
carry on the business of my little world? And in so doing, am I
not bound to put on record the memory of the amiable and
intelligent man who, meeting the Scribe (another clerk-amateur) at
a ball, said, "Just give the office a turn; there is work for you
there, I assure you"? But do you need this public testimony to
feel assured of the affection of the writer?
DE BALZAC.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson: In comes the playmate that never was seen.
When children are happy and lonely and good,
The Friend of the Children comes out of the wood.
Nobody heard him, and nobody saw,
His is a picture you never could draw,
But he's sure to be present, abroad or at home,
When children are happy and playing alone.
He lies in the laurels, he runs on the grass,
He sings when you tinkle the musical glass;
Whene'er you are happy and cannot tell why,
The Friend of the Children is sure to be by!
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: that by and by."
Then, rising up, he addressed the company in a style of
inflammatory invective against the government and its measures,
but especially the Union; a treaty, by means of which, he
affirmed, Scotland had been at once cheated of her independence,
her commerce, and her honour, and laid as a fettered slave at the
foot of the rival against whom, through such a length of ages,
through so many dangers, and by so much blood, she had honourably
defended her rights. This was touching a theme which found a
responsive chord in the bosom of every man present.
"Our commerce is destroyed," hollowed old John Rewcastle, a
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