| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: "Nay," said Elizabeth, "this is not fair. YOU wish to think all
the world respectable, and are hurt if I speak ill of anybody. _I_
only want to think YOU perfect, and you set yourself against it.
Do not be afraid of my running into any excess, of my
encroaching on your privilege of universal good-will. You need
not. There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of
whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I
dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the
inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little
dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or
sense. I have met with two instances lately, one I will not
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: vacare agros: hac re significari magnum numerum civitatum suam vim
sustinere non posse. Itaque una ex parte a Suebis circiter milia passuum
C agri vacare dicuntur. Ad alteram partem succedunt Ubii, quorum fuit
civitas ampla atque florens, ut est captus Germanorum; ii paulo, quamquam
sunt eiusdem generis, sunt ceteris humaniores, propterea quod Rhenum
attingunt multum ad eos mercatores ventitant et ipsi propter
propinquitatem [quod] Gallicis sunt moribus adsuefacti. Hos cum Suebi
multis saepe bellis experti propter amplitudinem gravitatem civitatis
finibus expellere non potuissent, tamen vectigales sibi fecerunt ac multo
humiliores infirmiores redegerunt.
In eadem causa fuerunt Usipetes et Tencteri, quos supra diximus; qui
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark Twain: feel for a stranger who had been thus turned upon the charities
of an unfeeling community. He looked at him earnestly, and said:
"Be of good cheer--look forward, sir, to the high destination you
may attain. Remember, the more elevated the mark at which you aim,
the more sure, the more glorious, the more magnificent the prize."
From wonder to wonder, his encouragement led the impatient listener.
A stranger nature bloomed before him--giant streams promised
him success--gardens of hidden treasures opened to his view.
All this, so vividly described, seemed to gain a new witchery from his
glowing fancy.
In 1842 he entered the class, and made rapid progress in the English
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