| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft: hides well for them! God forgive me," added the
old soul, "the niggers will make me lose all my
religion!"
By this time the lady had reached her destination.
The gentleman got out at the next station beyond.
As soon as she was gone, the young Southerner
said to my master, "What a d----d shame it is for
that old whining hypocritical humbug to cheat
the poor negroes out of their liberty! If she has
religion, may the devil prevent me from ever being
converted!"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: the other existed; but their lives were apart as the Poles, and
while they must have heard stray bits of news and were curious,
they were never known to ask a question. And there would have
been no trouble had not a free lance in the shape of the model-
woman come into the land on the first ice, with a spanking dog-
team and a cosmopolitan reputation. Loraine Lisznayi--
alliterative, dramatic, and Hungarian--precipitated the strife,
and because of her Mrs. Eppingwell left her hillside and invaded
Freda's domain, and Freda likewise went up from the town to spread
confusion and embarrassment at the Governor's ball.
All of which may be ancient history so far as the Klondike is
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Cavalry General by Xenophon: [1] Al. "on garrison outpost duty."
[2] Reading {phulakon}, or if with Courier {thulakon}, "haversacks,"
i.e. "la farine, le contenant pour le contenu."
Indeed, to put the matter in a nutshell, there is small risk a general
will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may
have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
Beginning with the simple art of mounting on horseback, let him so
train himself in all particulars of horsemanship that, to look at him,
the men must see their leader is a horseman who can leap a trench
unscathed or scale a parapet,[3] or gallop down a bank, and hurl a
javelin with the best. These are accomplishments which one and all
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