| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: Just get behind me and push."
The Good Government
"WHAT a happy land you are!" said a Republican Form of Government
to a Sovereign State. "Be good enough to lie still while I walk
upon you, singing the praises of universal suffrage and descanting
upon the blessings of civil and religious liberty. In the meantime
you can relieve your feelings by cursing the one-man power and the
effete monarchies of Europe."
"My public servants have been fools and rogues from the date of
your accession to power," replied the State; "my legislative
bodies, both State and municipal, are bands of thieves; my taxes
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: to the fate that I deserve!'
'The fate?' repeated Harry. 'What is this?'
'No fate,' she resumed. 'I do not know what I am saying.
But I wish to be alone. You may come back this evening,
Harry; come again when you like; but leave me now, only leave
me now!' And then suddenly, 'I have an errand,' she
exclaimed; 'you cannot refuse me that!'
'No,' replied Harry, 'you have no errand. You are in grief
or danger. Lift your veil and tell me what it is.'
'Then,' she said, with a sudden composure, 'you leave but one
course open to me.' And raising the veil, she showed him a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Commission in Lunacy by Honore de Balzac: has not his match! Rather than he should have the smallest trouble, or
hair less on his head I could almost say, we would return every sou,
monsieur. Write that down on your papers. Heaven above us! I will go
at once and tell Jeanrenaud what is going on! A pretty thing indeed!"
And the little old woman went out, rolled herself downstairs, and
disappeared.
"That one tells no lies," said Popinot to himself. "Well, to-morrow I
shall know the whole story, for I shall go to see the Marquis
d'Espard."
People who have outlived the age when a man wastes his vitality at
random, know how great an influence may be exercised on more important
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