| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the servants' entrance slam behind Billy Byrne.
PART II
CHAPTER I
THE MURDER TRIAL
BILLY BYRNE squared his broad shoulders and filled his deep
lungs with the familiar medium which is known as air in
Chicago. He was standing upon the platform of a New York
Central train that was pulling into the La Salle Street Station,
and though the young man was far from happy something in
the nature of content pervaded his being, for he was coming
home.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo: business confirmed both Miss Perkins and Andrew in their previous
opinion that "the boss" had suddenly "gone off his head." And
when he at last left the office and banged the door behind him
there was a general sigh of relief from his usually tranquil
staff.
Instead of walking, as was his custom, Jimmy took a taxi to his
home but alas, to his surprise he found no wife.
"Did Mrs. Jinks leave any word?" he inquired from the butler.
"None at all," answered that unperturbed creature; and Jimmy felt
sure that the attitude of his office antagonists had communicated
itself to his household servants.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lesser Hippias by Plato: importance. Those writings which he cites without mentioning Plato, under
their own names, e.g. the Hippias, the Funeral Oration, the Phaedo, etc.,
have an inferior degree of evidence in their favour. They may have been
supposed by him to be the writings of another, although in the case of
really great works, e.g. the Phaedo, this is not credible; those again
which are quoted but not named, are still more defective in their external
credentials. There may be also a possibility that Aristotle was mistaken,
or may have confused the master and his scholars in the case of a short
writing; but this is inconceivable about a more important work, e.g. the
Laws, especially when we remember that he was living at Athens, and a
frequenter of the groves of the Academy, during the last twenty years of
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