Do Good That Counts

History can never forget the question

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All of us have the power to do good, but only a few of us have the power to do good that counts. It is my confidence in humanity to advise and say help for him who asks, but I shall not vote for Blaine unless I can save the country from destruction. It is ever a good nation, and you can’t do a better one than that.

I was in it once, for Madison was always urging America to join the Forest and revolt against France. But nobody would do it. France was futile. That night, the issue was our last strong point. It seems to me that history can never forget the question whether the Protector’s principle is a higher good than the French principality; and that it should be impeached, but should be vain, for nothing could be done by avarice and tyrannical conduct and fat adulteries.

Another night, when I was housing one of the simple and poor, a most rich and gaudy country people, and we were relaxing our mutual ties and talking, somebody sneaked a note into our rooms. It was from Madame Paine, a friend of our house. It said: To-morrow, when you have financed the advance of a novel, or are employed as a publisher, you will earn one or more money per month, and cost you two hundred dollars every month, and will draw an annual return which will entitle you to four months largesse, and other terms in which you may direct all investments for your future benefit. You are entitled to stock, and to call for your books. You are the owner. It was an amusing thought.

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Editor’s Notes

Written by AI, using my random-temp generator script, and using my novels model, which is a fine-tuning of gpt-2 774M. Chosen from among the other recently generated stories by me, a human.

Edits

Paragraph formatting added. Deleted fragment at end.

Title

Title was human-derived by me from the generated text

Plagiarism Checked

Plagiarism checked with my orchestration code around Plagiarism-Basic against the dataset

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