| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dust by Mr. And Mrs. Haldeman-Julius: did not care a snap for their good opinion, but he realized
exactly how much they could hurt him if he violated their
prejudices beyond a certain point. Fortunately, there are
millions of communities in the world. This one would rise against
him and denounce, another would accept them as pleasant
strangers. He might be taken for Rose's father! He would fight
this with tireless care. Yes, he would have to go away. But his
business interests --what about his farm, his cattle, his
machinery, his bank stock, his mortgages, his municipal bonds?
How wonderful it would be if he could go with her to the
station--his securities in a grip, his other possessions turned
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: Hi centum pagos habere dicuntur, ex quibus quotannis singula milia
armatorum bellandi causa ex finibus educunt. Reliqui, qui domi manserunt,
se atque illos alunt; hi rursus in vicem anno post in armis sunt, illi
domi remanent. Sic neque agri cultura nec ratio atque usus belli
intermittitur. Sed privati ac separati agri apud eos nihil est, neque
longius anno remanere uno in loco colendi causa licet. Neque multum
frumento, sed maximam partem lacte atque pecore vivunt multum sunt in
venationibus; quae res et cibi genere et cotidiana exercitatione et
libertate vitae, quod a pueris nullo officio aut disciplina adsuefacti
nihil omnino contra voluntatem faciunt, et vires alit et immani corporum
magnitudine homines efficit. Atque in eam se consuetudinem adduxerunt ut
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne: the apostle of her own unquiet heart, to renew the wanderings of
past years. For her voice had been already heard in many lands of
Christendom; and she had pined in the cells of a Catholic
Inquisition before she felt the lash and lay in the dungeons of
the Puritans. Her mission had extended also to the followers of
the Prophet, and from them she had received the courtesy and
kindness which all the contending sects of our purer religion
united to deny her. Her husband and herself had resided many
months in Turkey, where even the Sultan's countenance was
gracious to them; in that pagan land, too, was Ilbrahim's
birthplace, and his oriental name was a mark of gratitude for the
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