| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Hermione's Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Don Marquis: other with martine silk.
But the one, I think that express ME the most
accurately -- the one that represents my individual-
ity, REALLY -- is made with gold spokes covered with
black Chantilly lace. Japanese shape, you know,
and French workmanship.
And one must strive to represent one's self if one
is to be honest.
One must put one's soul into one's environment.
Although Environment isn't what it used to be.
You don't hear Environment spoken of nearly as
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: years (1820-1830) the population of one district, as, for
instance, the State of Delaware, has increased in the proportion
of five per cent.; whilst that of another, as the territory of
Michigan, has increased 250 per cent. Thus the population of
Virginia had augmented thirteen per cent., and that of the border
State of Ohio sixty-one per cent., in the same space of time.
The general table of these changes, which is given in the
"National Calendar," displays a striking picture of the unequal
fortunes of the different States.]
[Footnote p: It has just been said that in the course of the last
term the population of Virginia has increased thirteen per cent.;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Common Sense by Thomas Paine: Alas! it seems by the particular tendency of some part of your testimony,
and other parts of your conduct, as if, all sin was reduced to,
and comprehended in, THE ACT OF BEARING ARMS, and that by the people only.
Ye appear to us, to have mistaken party for conscience; because,
the general tenor of your actions wants uniformity--And it is exceedingly
difficult to us to give credit to many of your pretended scruples;
because, we see them made by the same men, who, in the very instant
that they are exclaiming against the mammon of this world, are nevertheless,
hunting after it with a step as steady as Time, and an appetite as keen
as Death.
The quotation which ye have made from Proverbs, in the third page
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