| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: brevi tempore iudicaturos. Quod non fore dicto audientes neque signa
laturi dicantur, nihil se ea re commoveri: scire enim, quibuscumque
exercitus dicto audiens non fuerit, aut male re gesta fortunam defuisse
aut aliquo facinore comperto avaritiam esse convictam. Suam innocentiam
perpetua vita, felicitatem Helvetiorum bello esse perspectam. Itaque se
quod in longiorem diem conlaturus fuisset repraesentaturum et proxima
nocte de quarta, vigilia castra moturum, ut quam primum intellegere posset
utrum apud eos pudor atque officium an timor plus valeret. Quod si
praeterea nemo sequatur, tamen se cum sola decima legione iturum, de qua
non dubitet, sibique eam praetoriam cohortem futuram. Huic legioni Caesar
et indulserat praecipue et propter virtutem confidebat maxime.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad: of ill-conditioned snarling cur--"
He appealed to me as if our experiences had been as identical as our clothes.
And I knew well enough the pestiferous danger of such a character where there
are no means of legal repression. And I knew well enough also that my double
there was no homicidal ruffian. I did not think of asking him for details,
and he told me the story roughly in brusque, disconnected sentences.
I needed no more. I saw it all going on as though I were myself inside
that other sleeping suit.
"It happened while we were setting a reefed foresail, at dusk.
Reefed foresail! You understand the sort of weather. The only sail we
had left to keep the ship running; so you may guess what it had been
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Chronicles of the Canongate by Walter Scott: Mr. PAT. ROBERTSON Proposed "The Health of Mr. Jeffrey," whose
absence was owing to indisposition. The public was well aware
that he was the most distinguished advocate at the bar. He was
likewise distinguished for the kindness, frankness, and cordial
manner in which he communicated with the junior members of the
profession, to the esteem of whom his splendid talents would
always entitle him.
Mr. J. MACONOCHIE gave "The Health of Mrs. Siddons, senior, the
most distinguished ornament of the stage."
Sir W. SCOTT said that if anything could reconcile him to old
age, it was the reflection that he had seen the rising as well as
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