| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Snow Image by Nathaniel Hawthorne: elderly dog --who seemed to be his own master, as no person in
the company laid claim to him--saw fit to render himself the
object of public notice. Hitherto, he had shown himself a very
quiet, well-disposed old dog, going round from one to another,
and, by way of being sociable, offering his rough head to be
patted by any kindly hand that would take so much trouble. But
now, all of a sudden, this grave and venerable quadruped, of his
own mere motion, and without the slightest suggestion from
anybody else, began to run round after his tail, which, to
heighten the absurdity of the proceeding, was a great deal
shorter than it should have been. Never was seen such headlong
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: the streets, or the houses of the very rich, which are so large that
the children's quarters can be kept out of the parents' way like the
servants' quarters.
Not too much Wind on the Heath, Brother
What, then, is to be done? For the present, unfortunately, little
except propagating the conception of Children's Rights. Only the
achievement of economic equality through Socialism can make it
possible to deal thoroughly with the question from the point of view
of the total interest of the community, which must always consist of
grown-up children. Yet economic equality, like all simple and obvious
arrangements, seems impossible to people brought up as children are
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ursula by Honore de Balzac: had just died at Montereau after the battle, in despair at seeing his
farm burned, his fields ruined, his cattle slaughtered.
"We'll get nothing out of your great-uncle," said Massin to his wife,
now pregnant with her second child, after the interview.
The doctor, however, gave them privately ten thousand francs, with
which Massin, who was a great friend of the notary and of the sheriff,
began the business of money-lending, and carried matters so briskly
with the peasantry that by the time of which we are now writing Goupil
knew him to hold at least eighty thousand francs on their property.
As to his other niece, the doctor obtained for her husband, through
his influence in Paris, the collectorship of Nemours, and became his
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