| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Reminiscences of Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy: impropriety?
Where do those people end to whom we are under these
obligations? By what characteristics are the one sort
distinguished from the others? And are not all these rules of
politeness bad, if they do not extend to all sorts of people? And
is not what we call politeness an illusion, and a very ugly
illusion?
LYOFF TOLSTOY.
Question: Which is the most "beastly plague," a cattle-plague
case for a farmer, or the ablative case for a school-boy?
LYOFF TOLSTOY.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Reminiscences of Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy: serious writer.
with us, he would get into conversation, become interested, and
could not tear himself away.
At last he would go off to his work, and we would disperse,
in winter to the different school-rooms, in summer to the
croquet-lawn or somewhere about the garden. My mother would
settle down in the drawing-room to make some garment for the
babies, or to copy out something she had not finished overnight;
and till three or four in the afternoon silence would reign in
the house.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: Of course, so far as I am concerned, events have put me
in a diametrically different frame of mind. If I came
prepared--I won't say to curse, but to--to criticize--I
certainly remain to bless. But you see my point.
I of course do not know what you have done as regards
the other members of the Board."
"I don't care about them," said Thorpe, carelessly. "You are
the one that I wished to bring in on the ground-floor.
The others don't matter. Of course, I shall do something
for them; they shan't be allowed to make trouble--even
supposing that it would be in their power to make trouble,
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