| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Cavalry General by Xenophon: be rejected. This threat would stimulate the owners of such brutes to
part with them by sale, and, what is more, to exercise discretion at
the time of purchase. So, too, it would be a good thing if the same
threat of rejection were made to include horses that kick on the
exercising-grounds, since it is impossible to keep such animals in the
ranks; and in case of an advance against a hostile force at any
point,[22] they must perforce trail in the rear, so that, thanks to
the vice of the animal which he bestrides, the trooper himself is
rendered useless.
[20] Or, "As regards those who are actually serving in the cavalry."
For a plausible emend. of this passage (S. 13) see Courier ("Notes
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: reality I have found in this strange disorder of existence. She
will not sulk with you nor misunderstand you nor cheat you of
your reward upon some petty doubt. You cannot change her by
advertisement or clamour, nor stifle her in vulgarities. Things
grow under your hands when you serve her, things that are
permanent as nothing else is permanent in the whole life of man.
That, I think, is the peculiar satisfaction of science and its
enduring reward....
The taking up of experimental work produced a great change in
my personal habits. I have told how already once in my life at
Wimblehurst I had a period of discipline and continuous effort,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hermione's Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Don Marquis: Nor Soul Mates, either, for that matter.
Though I always will say there's an IDEA behind
all the talk about them.
Isn't it odd about things that way -- how Ideas
come and go, you know, and become quite old-
fashioned, and yet all the time have a QUITE pro-
found Idea back of them?
There's Cubist and Futurist Art, for instance --
one doesn't hear nearly so much about them now,
though everyone admitted there was an Idea be-
hind them.
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