| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs: properly set upon the bridge."
He saluted, and left me, and for some time I stood, gazing
out upon the angry waters, my mind filled with unhappy
reflections upon the unjust fate that had overtaken me, and
the sorrow and disgrace that I had unwittingly brought down
upon my house.
I rejoiced that I should leave neither wife nor child to
bear the burden of my shame throughout their lives.
As I thought upon my misfortune, I considered more clearly
than ever before the unrighteousness of the regulation which
was to prove my doom, and in the natural revolt against its
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Touchstone by Edith Wharton: his friends to his wife. You must, at any rate, have seen since
then that my enthusiasm had cooled; but so, perhaps, has your
eagerness to oblige me."
She met this with a silence that seemed to rob the taunt of half
its efficacy.
"Is that what you imply?" he pressed her.
"No," she answered with sudden directness. "I noticed some time
ago that you seemed to dislike him, but since then--"
"Well--since then?"
"I've imagined that you had reasons for still wishing me to be
civil to him, as you call it."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Menexenus by Plato: withdrawing from us. About the other allies he was mistaken, for the
Corinthians and Argives and Boeotians, and the other states, were quite
willing to let them go, and swore and covenanted, that, if he would pay
them money, they would make over to him the Hellenes of the continent, and
we alone refused to give them up and swear. Such was the natural nobility
of this city, so sound and healthy was the spirit of freedom among us, and
the instinctive dislike of the barbarian, because we are pure Hellenes,
having no admixture of barbarism in us. For we are not like many others,
descendants of Pelops or Cadmus or Egyptus or Danaus, who are by nature
barbarians, and yet pass for Hellenes, and dwell in the midst of us; but we
are pure Hellenes, uncontaminated by any foreign element, and therefore the
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