| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: for himself. He would accept no presents but gifts of money for
his poor."
"Then you do not believe this to have been a murder for the sake
of robbery?"
"No. There was nothing disturbed in any part of the house, no
drawers or cupboards broken open at all."
Muller smiled. "I have heard it said that your romantic Hungarian
bandits will often be satisfied with the small booty they may find
in the pocket or on the person of their victim."
"You are right, Mr. Muller. But that is only when they can find
nothing else."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Laches by Plato: courage is a sort of wisdom.
LACHES: What can he possibly mean, Socrates?
SOCRATES: That is a question which you must ask of himself.
LACHES: Yes.
SOCRATES: Tell him then, Nicias, what you mean by this wisdom; for you
surely do not mean the wisdom which plays the flute?
NICIAS: Certainly not.
SOCRATES: Nor the wisdom which plays the lyre?
NICIAS: No.
SOCRATES: But what is this knowledge then, and of what?
LACHES: I think that you put the question to him very well, Socrates; and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: To be caught masquerading in the uniform of an Austrian
soldier within the Austrian lines was to plumb the utter-
most depth of guilt--nothing that he might do now could
make his position worse.
He faced the sergeant, snapping his piece to present, hop-
ing that this was the proper thing to do. Then he stumbled
through a brief excuse. The officer in command of the troops
that had just passed had demanded the way of him, and
he had but stepped a few paces from his post to point out
the road to his superior.
The sergeant grunted and ordered him to fall in. Another
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