| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Massimilla Doni by Honore de Balzac: "I will cure your friend," said the Frenchman.
"Achieve that, and we shall love you," said the Duchess. "But if on
your return to France you do not calumniate us, we shall love you even
better. The hapless Italians are too much crushed by foreign dominion
to be fairly judged--for we have known yours," she added, with a
smile.
"It was more generous than Austria's," said the physician, eagerly.
"Austria squeezes and gives us nothing back, and you squeeze to
enlarge and beautify our towns; you stimulated us by giving us an
army. You thought you could keep Italy, and they expect to lose it--
there lies the difference.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: better than the citizens could do it for themselves; this may be
true when the central power is enlightened, and when the local
districts are ignorant; when it is as alert as they are slow;
when it is accustomed to act, and they to obey. Indeed, it is
evident that this double tendency must augment with the increase
of centralization, and that the readiness of the one and the
incapacity of the others must become more and more prominent.
But I deny that such is the case when the people is as
enlightened, as awake to its interests, and as accustomed to
reflect on them, as the Americans are. I am persuaded, on the
contrary, that in this case the collective strength of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Redheaded Outfield by Zane Grey: half-breeds, French-Canadians; the huge, hulking,
bearded farmers or traders, or trappers, whatever
they were, were new to our baseball experience.
The players themselves, however, earned the
largest share of our attention. By the time they
had practiced a few moments we looked at Merritt
and Merritt looked at us.
These long, powerful, big-handed lads evidently
did not know the difference between lacrosse and
baseball; but they were quick as cats on their feet,
and they scooped up the ball in a way wonderful
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