| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: when honester men than thou go in their hose and doublets.
DICK.
And work in their shirt too; as myself, for example, that
am a butcher.
SAY.
You men of Kent,--
DICK.
What say you of Kent?
SAY.
Nothing but this; 't is 'bona terra, mala gens.'
CADE.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey: of men the intelligence that Jane Withersteen's Arabians had been
known to have been stolen. Venters reined in and halted before
Dyer's residence. It was a low, long, stone structure resembling
Withersteen House. The spacious front yard was green and
luxuriant with grass and flowers; gravel walks led to the huge
porch; a well-trimmed hedge of purple sage separated the yard
from the church grounds; birds sang in the trees; water flowed
musically along the walks; and there were glad, careless shouts
of children. For Venters the beauty of this home, and the
serenity and its apparent happiness, all turned red and black.
For Venters a shade overspread the lawn, the flowers, the old
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Heart of the West by O. Henry: is one of the best stockmen in the West."
The dropping out of a prince-consort rarely disorganises a monarchy.
Queen Santa had appointed as /mayordomo/ of the ranch a trusty
subject, named Ramsay, who had been one of her father's faithful
vassals. And there was scarcely a ripple on the Nopalito ranch save
when the gulf-breeze created undulations in the grass of its wide
acres.
For several years the Nopalito had been making experiments with an
English breed of cattle that looked down with aristocratic contempt
upon the Texas long-horns. The experiments were found satisfactory;
and a pasture had been set aside for the blue-bloods. The fame of them
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