| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain: could get both rewards by taking HIM into camp _with_ the swag.
It was the blessedest idea that ever I struck!"
"You'd change your mind," said Wilson, with irritated bluntness,
"if you knew the entire scheme instead of only part of it."
"Well," said the constable, pensively, "I had the idea that
it wouldn't work, and up to now I'm right anyway."
"Very well, then, let it stand at that, and give it a further show.
It has worked at least as well as your own methods, you perceive."
The constable hadn't anything handy to hit back with,
so he discharged a discontented sniff, and said nothing.
After the night that Wilson had partly revealed his scheme
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare: Have of my suffering youth some feeling pity,
And be not of my holy vows afraid:
That's to you sworn, to none was ever said;
For feasts of love I have been call'd unto,
Till now did ne'er invite, nor never woo.
'All my offences that abroad you see
Are errors of the blood, none of the mind;
Love made them not; with acture they may be,
Where neither party is nor true nor kind:
They sought their shame that so their shame did find;
And so much less of shame in me remains,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Theaetetus by Plato: declaration that a pig or a dog-faced baboon, or some other yet stranger
monster which has sensation, is the measure of all things; then he might
have shown a magnificent contempt for our opinion of him by informing us at
the outset that while we were reverencing him like a God for his wisdom he
was no better than a tadpole, not to speak of his fellow-men--would not
this have produced an overpowering effect? For if truth is only sensation,
and no man can discern another's feelings better than he, or has any
superior right to determine whether his opinion is true or false, but each,
as we have several times repeated, is to himself the sole judge, and
everything that he judges is true and right, why, my friend, should
Protagoras be preferred to the place of wisdom and instruction, and deserve
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