| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry: are wisest. They are the magi.
End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of THE GIFT OF THE MAGI.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: and here they usually remained all the winter till they turned to seek again
their old tracks in the following spring.
It was to this breezy and whimsical spot that Jude ascended from
the nearest station for the first time in his life about four
o'clock one afternoon, and entering on the summit of the peak
after a toilsome climb, passed the first houses of the aerial town;
and drew towards the school-house. The hour was too early;
the pupils were still in school, humming small, like a swarm of gnats;
and he withdrew a few steps along Abbey Walk, whence he regarded the spot
which fate had made the home of all he loved best in the world.
In front of the schools, which were extensive and stone-built,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne: equivalent. (Vide Mich. Giustinian, ne gli Scritt. Liguri a 223. 488.) On
auroit toujours ete tres satisfait de l'industrie d'un pere si experimente
dans l'Art de la Generation, quand il n'auroit pu prolonger la vie a son
fils que pour Puelques mois, ou pour peu d'annees. Mais quand on se
represente que l'Enfant a vecu pres de quatre-vingts ans, & qu'il a compose
quatre-vingts Ouvrages differents tous fruits d'une longue lecture--il faut
convenir que tout ce qui est incroyable n'est pas toujours faux, & que la
Vraisemblance n'est pas toujours du cote la Verite. Il n'avoit que dix
neuf ans lorsqu'il composa Gonopsychanthropologia de Origine Animae
humanae. (Les Enfans celebres, revus & corriges par M. de la Monnoye de
l'Academie Francoise.)) of no more than five inches and a half in length,
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