| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Laches by Plato: LACHES: I will if you think that I ought.
SOCRATES: Yes, I do; but I must beg of you, Nicias, to begin again. You
remember that we originally considered courage to be a part of virtue.
NICIAS: Very true.
SOCRATES: And you yourself said that it was a part; and there were many
other parts, all of which taken together are called virtue.
NICIAS: Certainly.
SOCRATES: Do you agree with me about the parts? For I say that justice,
temperance, and the like, are all of them parts of virtue as well as
courage. Would you not say the same?
NICIAS: Certainly.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis: But after two minutes of shamed and childish longing to sneak home he was
snorting, "Certainly I wasn't trying to get chummy with her! Knew there was
nothing doing, all the time!" and he ambled in to dance with Mrs. Orville
Jones, and to avoid Louetta, virtuously and conspicuously.
CHAPTER XXIV
I
HIS visit to Paul was as unreal as his night of fog and questioning. Unseeing
he went through prison corridors stinking of carbolic acid to a room lined
with pale yellow settees pierced in rosettes, like the shoe-store benches he
had known as a boy. The guard led in Paul. Above his uniform of linty gray,
Paul's face was pale and without expression. He moved timorously in response
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Master Key by L. Frank Baum: "That, your Excellency, is the Duke of Orleans, in disguise! I must
leave you for a time, that I may issue some necessary orders to my
men; but this evening I shall call to confer with you regarding the
best mode of suppressing this terrible plot."
When the official had departed, the President removed the spectacles
from his eyes and handed them to Rob.
"What did you see?" asked the boy.
"The letters 'G' and 'W'."
"Then you may trust him fully," declared Rob, and explained
the construction of the Character Marker to the interested
and amazed statesman.
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