| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: free air which I have breathed have done me good, after so long
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confinement in my study. I think to need no more of your drugs,
my kind physician, good though they be, and administered by a
friendly hand. "
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: self-waters their abundant tropical crops.
For great distances in all directions rugged hills and arid
stretches of dead sea bottom discourage intercourse with them,
and since there is practically no such thing as foreign commerce
upon warlike Barsoom, where each nation is sufficient to itself,
really little has been known relative to the court of the Jeddak of Kaol
and the numerous strange, but interesting, people over whom he rules.
Occasional hunting parties have traveled to this out-of-the-way
corner of the globe, but the hostility of the natives has usually
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honore de Balzac: to be both republican and noble in heart. Monarchy and the republic
are two forms of government which do not stifle noble sentiments."
"Michel Chrestien was an angel, madame," replied Daniel, in a voice of
emotion. "I don't know among the heroes of antiquity a greater than
he. Be careful not to think him one of those narrow-minded republicans
who would like to restore the Convention and the amenities of the
Committee of Public Safety. No, Michel dreamed of the Swiss federation
applied to all Europe. Let us own, between ourselves, that AFTER the
glorious government of one man only, which, as I think, is
particularly suited to our nation, Michel's system would lead to the
suppression of war in this old world, and its reconstruction on bases
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