| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: datis et pace facta, constituit cohortes duas in Nantuatibus conlocare et
ipse cum reliquis eius legionis cohortibus in vico Veragrorum, qui
appellatur Octodurus hiemare; qui vicus positus in valle non magna adiecta
planitie altissimis montibus undique continetur. Cum hic in duas partes
flumine divideretur, alteram partem eius vici Gallis [ad hiemandum]
concessit, alteram vacuam ab his relictam cohortibus attribuit. Eum locum
vallo fossaque munivit.
Cum dies hibernorum complures transissent frumentumque eo comportari
iussisset, subito per exploratores certior factus est ex ea parte vici,
quam Gallis concesserat, omnes noctu discessisse montesque qui impenderent
a maxima multitudine Sedunorum et Veragrorum teneri. Id aliquot de causis
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe: many inquiries after the good old friends I had once had there,
but could make little out; they were all dead or removed. The
young ladies had been all married or gone to London; the old
gentleman and the old lady that had been my early benefacress
all dead; and which troubled me most, the young gentleman
my first lover, and afterwards my brother-in-law, was dead;
but two sons, men grown, were left of him, but they too were
transplanted to London.
I dismissed my old man here, and stayed incognito for three
or four days in Colchester, and then took a passage in a waggon,
because I would not venture being seen in the Harwich coaches.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Beauty and The Beast by Bayard Taylor: received three votes. Moreover, we had held meetings in almost
every election precinct in the State, and our Annual Fair (to raise
funds) at Gaston, while the Legislature was in session, was always
very brilliant and successful. So the people were not entirely
unprepared.
Although our State had gone for Fremont in 1856, by a small
majority, the Democrats afterwards elected their Governor; and
both parties, therefore, had hopes of success in 1860. The canvass
began early, and was very animated. Mrs. Whiston had already
inaugurated the custom of attending political meetings, and
occasionally putting a question to the stump orator--no matter of
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