| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx: learned them by heart, and, on December 21, 1851, he showed the
parliamentary royalists that he had learned from them. He repeated
their own slogans against themselves.
The Barrot ministry and the party of Order went further. They called
all over France for petitions to the National Assembly in which that
body was politely requested to disappear. Thus they led the people's
unorganic masses to the fray against the National Assembly, i.e., the
constitutionally organized expression of people itself. They taught
Bonaparte, to appeal from the parliamentary body to the people.
Finally, on January 29, 1849, the day arrived when the constitutional
assembly was to decide about its own dissolution. On that day the body
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: "I am to sup at Mr. Newlington's in His Majesty's company.
"His Majesty's?"
"King Monmouth's," he explained impatiently. "Come, Ruth. Already I am
late."
"If I were to ask you not to go," she said slowly, and she held out her
hands to him, her glance most piteous - and that was not acting - as
she raised it to meet his own, "would you not stay to pleasure me?"
He considered her from under frowning eyes. "Ruth," he said, and he
took her hands, "there is here something that I do not understand.
What is't you mean?"
"Promise me that you will not go to Newlington's, and I will tell you."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: you might rend my heart in pieces, and every fragment would make
a father's heart. If only I could bear all your sorrows for you!
. . . Ah! you were so happy when you were little and still with
me. . . ."
"We have never been happy since," said Delphine. "Where are the
old days when we slid down the sacks in the great granary?"
"That is not all, father," said Anastasie in Goriot's ear. The
old man gave a startled shudder. "The diamonds only sold for a
hundred thousand francs. Maxime is hard pressed. There are twelve
thousand francs still to pay. He has given me his word that he
will be steady and give up play in future. His love is all that I
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